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Marmaduke Tudsbery Tudsbery was a British civil engineer.
Born 4 October 1892 died 9 May 1983. Attended Westminster School and Imperial College London. He worked initially at the Yarrow Shipbuilders yard in Glasgow. He was commissioned into the special reserve of officers of the Royal Engineers during WWI and resigned his commission in 1925 when he joined the BBC as an engineer. He was consulting civil engineer from 1952 to 1960. His most siginificant contribution to the corporation was in selecting the site for Television Centre. He worked closely on the design of the structure with its architect. He was a member of the Athenaeum Club. He travelled widely and had accounts of his journeys printed for his friends.[1]
Tasked with selecting the site of Broadcasting House he chose Foley House in Portland Place. The vuilding was designed to make the most of the unusually shaped site.[2]
With Val Myer deisgned Broadcasting House, opened 15 May 1932.[3]
He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and was elected to the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1937.[4] By 1971, the society's bicentennial year, he was the most senior member by date of election. He commissioned a gift to the society, a silver model of the Eddystone Lighthouse by Leslie Durbin that is used as a centrepiece at dinners.[5] He was appointed a member emeritus in January 1981.[6] He was president from 1956-1957.[7]
Tudsbery visited the USSR in 1966, with his journey being documented as In the Red: Two Weeks in the USSR[8]
Tudsbery selected the 13 acre sitr at White City after hacing visited it during the 1908 Franco-British Expedition.[9]
At the Athenaeum was part of the "Sofa" group that met regularly after lunch around a sofa in the drawing room in the 1950s to 1970s. Thus group included Sir Alan Burns, Sir Hugh Down, Sir Eric de Normann, General Sir William Platt, Bishop Montomery-cCampbell and John Charlton (archaeologist).[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Marmaduke Tudsbery Tudsbery". Dictionary of Scottish Architects (1660 - 1980). Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ Briggs, Asa (1995). The history of broadcasting in the United Kingdom. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. Chapter IV (pages 381-478). ISBN 9780191670015.
- ^ "Broadcasting House opens". History of the BBC. BBC. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ Watson, Garth (1989). The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers. Thomas Telford. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-7277-1526-5.
- ^ Watson, Garth (1989). The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers. Thomas Telford. pp. 140–141. ISBN 978-0-7277-1526-5.
- ^ Watson, Garth (1989). The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers. Thomas Telford. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-7277-1526-5.
- ^ "Presidents". The Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ Glancey, Jonathan (13 June 2011). "How Television Centre started with a question mark". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ Verrill, Matt. "Television Centre in the BBC's own words". BBC.
- ^ Wheeler, Michael (2020). The Athenaeum: more than just another London club. New Haven London: Yale University Press. pp. Chapter 11 (pages 270–295). ISBN 9780300246773.