Sir John William Atwell CBE PRSE FREng FIMechE (24 November 1911 – 5 July 1999) was a Scottish engineer.
[1][2][3] Born in Glasgow in 1911 the son of William Atwell (d. 1953) and his wife, Sarah Workman, John Atwell attended Hyndland Secondary School in Glasgow.
In 1939 he received an MSc from King's College, Cambridge (where he was a Caird Travelling Scholar).
He then began working as a manager at Stewarts & Lloyds, who were one of Britain's largest shell manufacturers during the Second World War.
[citation needed] He was awarded a CBE in 1970 and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1976.