Sir Graham Sutton CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 FRS (4 February 1903 – 26 May 1977) was a British mathematician and meteorologist.

He was educated at Pontywaun Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College, Oxford

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 (which elected him to an Honorary Fellowship in 1958).

He was Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Wiltshire. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March, 1949. He was awarded CBE

CBE

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 in 1950.

He was Director-General of the Meteorological Office from 1953 to 1965 and president of the Royal Meteorological Society

Royal Meteorological Society

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 from 1953 to 1955. He was knighted in 1955.

He was Vice-President of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1967.