Richard Peck (RAF officer)

[1][2] Peck was born in West Derby, Liverpool, and educated at St Paul's School, London and Brasenose College, Oxford.

In 1935 he chaired the "Committee on the Defence of RAF Stations against Air Attack", which recommended an increase in resources.

He was Lord Portal's primary public information deputy,[3][4] and was often quoted in newspapers as an anonymous Air Ministry spokesman.

[7] Peck persuaded Wilfrid Freeman not to cancel, and it turned out to be an extremely versatile warplane which was used until the end of the war.

He was a Governor of the BBC from 1946 to 1949, vice-chairman of the National Savings Committee in 1947, and he became president of the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA) in 1949.