Sir Diarmuid Downs (23 April 1922 – 12 February 2014[1]) was a British automotive engineer.
Downs was born in 1922 in London, where his father ran a small engineering business manufacturing equipment for the oil industry.
Downs was educated at Gunnersbury Catholic Grammar School and the Regent Street Polytechnic, London.
[2] He then studied at Northampton Engineering College, London, where he graduated with First Class honours in 1942.
[7] More details can be found in the Bibliographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society published in 2019.