In 1929, he was promoted to Deputy Chief Engineer of the R100 project under Sir Barnes Wallis.

Famous Effingham villagers include Sir Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb which breached the Eder and Mohne dams in the Second World War.

Knighted in 1968, Sir Barnes Wallis was instrumental in the founding days of the KGV playing fields at Effingham.

The actor also narrated at least one TV documentary about The Dambusters and contributed forewords to many books on the subject, including The Dam Busters by Jonathan Falconer ( 2003 ), Filming The Dam Busters by Jonathan Falconer ( 2005 ) and most recently Bouncing-Bomb Man: The Science of Sir Barnes Wallis by Iain Murray ( 2009 ).

In 1955 Sir Kenneth Barnes retired and John Fernald was appointed principal.

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS ( 26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979 ), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor.

* A public house named after Sir Barnes Wallis is located in the town of his birth, Ripley, Derbyshire.

* The Papers of Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, Janus Archive, Cambridge

* Sir Barnes Wallis, Iain Murray

On the advice of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron Lord Patten of Barnes was appointed by the Queen-in-Council as Chairman of the BBC Trust, and he took office on 1 May 2011, in the place of Sir Michael Lyons.

This is why Sir Barnes Wallis was born in Ripley as his father was the curate of said All Saints ' Anglican Church which was built in 1821 and is situated, appropriately enough, on Church Street ( a ).

At the bottom of Moseley Street adjacent to the Red Lion pub in Ripley Town Centre there is a recreation field named after Sir Barnes Wallis which offers views over to Crich Stand, the Sherwood Foresters Memorial.

* The Elements: Books I-XIII-Complete and Unabridged, ( 2006 ) Translated by Sir Thomas Heath, Barnes & Noble ISBN 0-7607-6312-7.

The inventor Sir Barnes Wallis did early development work there on the " Bouncing Bomb " used in the " Dam Busters " wartime raids.

* Skull found in Sir David Attenborough's garden that solves 1879 Barnes murder mystery, Daily Mail, 25 October 2010

* Sir Barnes Wallis lived at 241 New Cross Road ( on the corner of Nettleton Road ) from 1892 to 1909.

He married twice firstly to Rose, daughter of Neville Thomas Alexander Butler and Cicely Aglionby, secondly to Dorothy, daughter of William Barnes of Sadberge, Co. Durham, widow of Sir Richard Browne, Bart ( killed in Flanders in 1689 by Colonel Billingsley ), as her third husband.

It was created in 1909 for Sir Gorell Barnes, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice from 1905 to 1909.

* The Nant-y-Gro dam – this small dam was constructed in the early stages of the project to supply water to the navvies village at the site ; it was used during the Second World War by Sir Barnes Wallis during trials of the explosive charges he intended to use in the bouncing bombs which later targeted the Ruhr dams.

It was particularly associated with the members of the team that worked on radar at Bawdsey Research Station under Sir Robert Watson-Watt, but also with computer scientists like Alan Turing, aeronautical engineers like Barnes Wallis, and their associates.

* October 30 – Sir Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb, geodetic airframe, and earthquake bomb, dies at the age of 82.

* September 26 – Sir Barnes Wallis ( b. 1887 ), English aeronautical engineer.

The group also became ravaged by factionalism, with one group following Lady Downe and the old ways of the British Fascists and another centred around James Strachey Barnes and Sir Harold Elsdale Goad advocating full commitment to a proper fascist ideology.

Sir George Reginald Barnes ( 1904 – 1960 ) was a British broadcasting executive, who was a station Controller of both BBC Radio and later BBC Television in the 1940s and 1950s.

* By Nile and Tigris, a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, 1920 ( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu & layered PDF format )

* April 26 – Sir Provo William Perry Wallis, British admiral and naval hero

* Sir Provo Wallis ( 1791 – 1892 ) was the last Royal Navy officer.

* " Papyrus of Ani: Egyptian Book of the Dead ", Sir Wallis Budge, NuVision Publications, page 57, 2007.

Angry and frustrated, Wallis secures an interview with Sir Arthur " Bomber " Harris ( played by Basil Sydney ), the head of RAF Bomber Command, who at first is reluctant to take the idea seriously.

Pressure from Linnell via the chairman of Vickers, Sir Charles Worthington Craven, caused Wallis to resign.

image: John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt. jpg | John Wallis

According to Sir E. A. Wallis Budge:

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, GCB ( 12 May 1791 – 13 February 1892 ) was a Royal Navy officer and naval war hero.

He had a bastard daughter, Marjorie, who married Sir Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia ( he died 1275 ), and had issue.

Henry Montgomery, Vicar of St Mark's, Kennington, at that time, was the second son of the noted Indian administrator, Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

Sir Robert Gordon died in 1847, and the lease on Balmoral reverted to Lord Aberdeen.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson ( 1812 – 1880 ), Premier of Tasmania.

If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France where, for any thing I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already a ' be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man.

Sir Nicholas had laid up a considerable sum of money to purchase an estate for his youngest son, but he died before doing so, and Francis was left with only a fifth of that money.

He died on 28 October 1704, and is buried in the churchyard of the village of High Laver, east of Harlow in Essex, where he had lived in the household of Sir Francis Masham since 1691.

It was a family secret for 600 years and even ( Sir John's ) mother, who died shortly before we visited, refused to reveal the secret.

* When Joseph Lyons, prime minister and leader of the United Australia Party ( UAP ), died suddenly in April 1939, the governor-general, Lord Gowrie, called on Sir Earle Page to become caretaker prime minister.

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

* Sir Robert, died 1332 at the Battle of Dupplin Moor ;

Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel died on 14 March 1470, and was buried with adequate splendor in Christ Church Greyfriars, near Newgate Prison.

His under-paid men abandoned their lord to save their lives, and Sir Eider died fighting the raiders alone.

Sir Quackly agreed and served the king during the war, but became obsessed with protecting the treasure, and accidentally trapped himself inside the walls with his treasure, where he subsequently died.

The Phoenix was established in honour of Sir Francis, who died in 1781, as a symbolic rising from the ashes of Dashwood's earlier institution, and to this day the dining society abides by many of its predecessor's tenets.

Sir William Wallace ( Medieval Gaelic: Uilliam Uallas ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas ; Norman French: William le Waleys ; ; died 23 August 1305 ) was a Scottish knight and landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

1191 ) and married secondly Sir Robert de Ros, of Helmsley ( died 1226 )

Here stood the oak tree, on which an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag, glanced and struck King William the Second, surnamed Rufus, on the breast, of which he instantly died, on the second day of August, anno 1100.

Lacerda died within a few weeks of arriving at Kazembe ’ s but left a valuable journal which was carried back to Tete by his priest and which was later translated into English by the explorer Sir Richard Burton.

* September 15 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer ( died 1985 )

He also appeared in several episodes of Armchair Theatre ( during the first of these in 1958, Underground, one of the lead actors died during the live performance ) and The Avengers in addition to many ITC drama series including: William Tell, The Four Just Men, Sir Francis Drake, Danger Man and as a recurrent guest in The Saint.