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Died December 2019. Alex Woolard (LEO Engineer) reports: I have to report the sad news that Alan Clarke who worked at Minerva Road, Kidsgrove and Winsford from 1962 until the Winsford plant closed,...
(Words from Robert Timms) -- A number of Alex’s LEO and ICL colleagues were among the gathering of family and friends who celebrated Alex’s life in Melbourne on 28 March, a beautiful sunny autumn afternoon.
1934-2015 Born on a beautiful farm in Poland 3rd July 1934 Anatol (Tony) Zak became one of the many Polish people to be forcibly evicted from their land.
Ann Sayce worked at Charles House (General Post Office) on LEO 326 between 1964 -67.
1926-2000 Tony Barnes joined J. Lyons & Co. as a Management Trainee working in the Statistical Office after graduating in 1947. He transferred to the LEO programming team in November 1950 where hi...
Born 1930, died 31/08/2019. Known also as Betty Cooper, sister in law of Pat Cooper (later Pat Fantl). Betty Cooper worked from 1955 to 1964 on both LEO l and LEO ll at Lyons. Applications she made p...
Died 2018. Bob was recruited in 1960 by Leo Fantl to join the newly formed LEO Computers/Rand Mines collaborative venture in Johannesburg, South Africa. Bob, of Afrikan descent, was one of a handful...
Born 1927, died August 2016. Bob Gibson trained as an electronic engineer as part of National Service. After working as an electronic research engineer in Civil Service, he was recruited by LEO Compu...
Clive Richards, CBE, financial and technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, born 1st September 1937, died 16th April 2021.
1936-2007 Colin Tully joined LEO Computers in 1960 after graduating with a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.
1903-1990 Born in Siberia of politically active parents, refugee to Germany from Soviet oppression, Dan Broido took a degree in Mechanical Engineering in Berlin, and became an engineer at the firm Rot...
1915 - 2008 David T Caminer: System designer behind LEO, the world's first business computer Joined J.
1927 - 2004 Along with Maurice Wilkes and Stanley Gill, David Wheeler is credited with the invention in around 1951 of the subroutine and he gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.
Born 1930, died June 2018. Derek Jolly joined LEO circa 1953-54. After grammar school he started training as an accountant, but decided to try something else and was interviewed by David Caminer, and...
1920-2013 Donald Moore started his career in computing by setting up and managing the Army Payroll Centre with an IBM 705.
27/03/1897-12/02/1958. Douglas Hartree was an eminent Cambridge scientist noted for his contribution to a number of fields of study including early computing – as an example he was the first civ...
21 Sept 1924 - 13 January 2020 Lord Ironside (2nd Baron Ironside), an active member of House of Lords, joined first Marconi and in 1959 English Electric.
1922-2012 Ernest Kaye joined John Pinkerton as his assistant in 1949 in the design of LEO I and later LEO II, having been recruited as an electronic engineer from GEC.
1910-1997 Despite an interest in things technical Ernest Lenaerts' parents persuaded him to take a clerical job at J.
Born: 1928. Frank Land was a leading member of the small team that developed the world’s first business computer, LEO, who then went on to become the UK’s first professor of information systems. He...
1911-2002 George F Stevens was a senior J Lyons & Co manager who took responsibility for the running of the Lyons LEO Computers when LEO Computers Limited merged with English Electric.
1938-2011 LEO engineer, rising from apprentice to Chief Commissioning Engineer.
1942-2011 After graduating from Queen Mary University with a degree in General Science he became a LEO Computers programmer seconded to work on General Post Office (GPO) programs, including the Giro and telephone billing.
Died July 2017, aged 83. Hamish, after a career with ICL, became an active member of Computer Conservation Society. Always a good friend of LEO Computers. Author of book of reminiscences and stories...
1933 – 2017 John Daines writes “I remember seeing Hugo first in Hartree House, in a lift in 1962 or 63.
Died 2018. Joe Crouch joined LEO Computers as a trainee programmer and quickly rose to Senior Programmer/Consultant Status, working at Hartree House. When Ilford Limited acquired a LEO II Joe headed t...
1934 - 2010 John Aris was a pioneer in using computers for business purposes.
1927 – 2012 John joined LEO as a Trainee Programmer in March 1954 while he was still technically on demob leave from the British Army, in which he had served for some nine years.
Born October 1936, died 2006. Engineer and entrepreneur founded company to help users transfer data from one make of machine to another. Their big break came when Phoenix Insurance decided to update t...
1930-2003 Joined LEO as a programmer in 1953 after taking a degree (pass) in Mathematics at Cambridge University and made rapid progress with his understanding of software.
Born December 1924, died 2000. After National Service in the RAF where he gained his pilot’s wings, John Grover joined J Lyons & Co as a management trainee in 1947, working on bakery accounts....
1919-1997 After doing research into radar systems and receiving a PhD at Cambridge, Maurice Wilkes recommended John Pinkerton to J Lyons & Co as the engineer to design and develop LEO.
1902-1985 After gaining a first class degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University John Simmons was recruited by George Booth, J Lyons & Co company secretary as a management trainee and statist...
Born in Clapham, London, April 1929, died October 26th 2018 in Sydney Australia.
Died 28th November 2020. Margaret Perrot was a pioneer with the service bureau of LEO at Hartree House, and she was the last person to go to Cadby Hall to do a small program amendment on LEO I just be...
1929 - 2022 Mary Coombs (nee Blood) was the first woman to work on the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) computers.
Died 2016, LEO Engineer. Tony Morgan writes "Maurice was very interesting person, a real gentleman with a small moustache. He had originally been a pilot with British South American Airways before i...
1913-2010 Sir Maurice Wilkes played a leading role in the design of the Cambridge University EDSAC computer, one of the earliest stored program computers, in the late 1940s and in return for some funding for that project from J.
1929-2009 Mavis Hinds worked for the Meteorological Office and used LEO I for weather forecasting – the earliest use of computers for modelling the weather in the early 1950s.
Died March 2018. Worked in LEO Computers Service Bureau, Hartree House in Programming and Support 1962-1966. He went on to work with several companies, including UNISYS, RCA (in America) and III, an A...
1912-1980 Oliver Standingford was a senior J Lyons & Co manager who, at the behest of John Simmons, visited the USA with T.
Born in the USA, came to England, joining LEO Computers as a programmer in 1955.
1934 - 1995, LEO Maintenance Engineer Margaret Guest, his widow writes: Did National Service in RAF as wireless operator, posted to Aden.
Born 23 February 1930, died 6th June 2018 at his home in Wollongong, Australia.
TRAILBLAZER IN COMPUTER MANAGEMENT One of the very first computer specialists to make it all the way to the board of a major corporation, Peter Hermon blazed a trail and set standards for successful c...
Died 16/11/2019. Ann Titman, Peter’s widow writes "He designed the magnetic core for LEO III, if I remember rightly, working with Dr Pinkerton. He left to join IBM and had a successful career in compu...
1918-2013 John Starling write an obituary to Peter Wood for the LEO Computers Society: "Peter Wood, who has died at the age of 95, was given a good send-off in June, well attended by family, old boys and members of his bowls club.
Robert Peel was an intrinsic part of the LEO Computers Master Routine team.
Died 2013 Robin Stanley-Jones joined LEO Computers as a technician around 1961 and worked at Minerva Road.
After leaving the RAF in late 1962/early 1963 Ron Kirby joined LEO at Cadby Hall working on LEO II/I.
Marie Hicks Twitter message 2018: In 1964 the inimitable @DameStephanie_ ran this job ad in @thetimes, seeking programmers for her startup.
Stuart Megan, died July 2022. Stuart worked as a computer operator – shift leader - on the LEO III/35 at the Bath SWGB site, working like about 10 others on the LEO III and 4.50 for BARIC on pe...
1907-1976 Known within J Lyons & Co simply as TRT, he was one of the giants of the LEO enterprise.
June 1937 - 4 April 2020 Tony Morgan played a key role in the commissioning of LEO II and LEO III systems.
