Stephen Tetlow

Brigadier Stephen John Tetlow MBE (born June 1954) is an engineer and former senior British Army officer.

Tetlow was born in Basford, Nottinghamshire,[1] and was educated at Burton Joyce Primary School and Carlton le Willows Grammar School, where he aspired to be a train driver.[2]

Stephen Tetlow had been promoted to major by 1991, when he had received his MBE.[3] He was then promoted to colonel by 2011, when he dismissed claims put forward by author Tim Blackmore that emerging technology would revolutionize battlespace in the near future - commenting that "conflict is, and will remain, essentially a human activity".[4] Later promoted to Brigadier, he was gazetted to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He was Director of the corps from 2002 to 2005.[5]

After military service, Tetlow became chief executive of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He currently resides in Devon on a County Wildlife Site and has since led an expedition to South Georgia in order to retrace the steps of Ernest Shackleton.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "England & Wales, Birth Index, 1916–2005 for Stephen J Tetlow". Retrieved 26 August 2015 – via Ancestry.com. (subscription required (help)).
  2. ↑ "Honorary Members". Institution of Primary Engineers. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Supplement to the London Gazette, 13 May 1991" (PDF). Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Blackmore 2011, p. 33
  5. ↑ "Profile". EngineeringUK. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Stephen Tetlow - Institution of Mechanical Engineers". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

Bibliography

  • Blackmore, Tim (2011). War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1442613881. 
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