George Jefferson (engineer)

Sir George Rowland Jefferson CBE FRAeS (26 March 1921 – 1 September 2012) was a British aeronautical engineer and businessman.

[1] He was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC), later joining REME.

[1] For the latter stages of the war he worked in government research, developing automated anti-aircraft weapons.

He later moved to Perth, Western Australia, but lived in the Republic of Ireland at the end of his life.

[1] He died from heart failure and complications of Alzheimer's disease at a care home in Longford on 1 September 2012, aged 91.