Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: Difference between revisions

}}'''Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|KCB|FRS}}<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Lillicrap | first1 = C. S. | title = Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt. 1868-1951 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1951.0005 | journal = [[Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 7 | issue = 20 | pages = 341–354| year = 1951 | jstor = 769023| pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> (1 April 1868&nbsp;– 1 February 1951)<ref>http://auden.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I10672&ged=auden-bicknell.ged&tab=0{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> was a British naval architect and engineer. As [[Director of Naval Construction]] for the [[Royal Navy]], 1912–1924, he was responsible for the design and construction of some of the most famous British warships. He was also chairman of the [[Landship Committee]] at the Admiralty, which was responsible for the design and production of the first military [[tank]]s to be used in warfare.<ref name="Churchill, p. 316">Churchill, p. 316</ref>