Arthur Hawkins

Sir Arthur Ernest Hawkins OBE FIMechE FIEE (10 June 1913 – 13 January 1999) was an English mechanical and electrical engineer.

Born in Lympley Stoke, Bath, Somerset and educated at the Great Yarmouth High School.

He was made chairman of the CEGB in 1972 preceded by Sir Stanley Brown and proceeded by Glyn England in 1977.

I never thought I'd say that about an organisation that seemed, at the time, to embody the very worst aspects of post-war corporatism and central government planning.

But compared with the abject chaos into which British energy policy has descended since privatisation, the absolute rule of the CEGB seems a paragon of virtue.’[5]