{{short description|British naval officer and businessman}} {{Use British English|date=February 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Rear-Admiral | name = Sir Matthew Slattery | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|CB|FRAeS}} | image = Rear-admiral Matthew Slattery in 1943.jpeg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Matthew Slattery in uniform, 1943 | birth_date = {{birth date|1902|05|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Bromley, London | death_date = {{death date and age|1990|03|16|1902|05|12|df=yes}} | death_place = Warninglid, West Sussex | education = Royal Naval College, Osborne<br>Royal Naval College, Dartmouth | occupation = Naval officer and company director | boards = Short Brothers and Harland (1949–1960)<br>Bristol Aeroplane Company (1957–1960)<br>National Bank (1959–1960, 1963–1969)<br>British Overseas Airways Corporation (1960–1963)<br>Hawthorn Leslie and Company (1967–1973) | spouse = Mica Mary }}
Rear-Admiral '''Sir Matthew Sausse Slattery''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KBE|CB|FRAeS}} (12 May 1902 – 16 March 1990) was a British naval officer, military aviator and businessman. He was the managing director and chairman of Short Brothers and Harland, chairman of British Overseas Airways Corporation and latterly served as chairman of Hawthorn Leslie and Company. He was also a board member of Bristol Aeroplane Company and The National Bank.<ref name="Who Was Who">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U169186 |title=Slattery, Rear-Adm. Sir Matthew (Sausse) |work=Who Was Who |publisher=A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc |date=April 2014 |access-date=11 February 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Early life==
Slattery was born in Bromley, London on 12 May 1902. His father was Henry Francis Slattery and his mother was Agnes Slattery (née Cuddon).<ref name="Times Obit">{{cite news |title=Rear-Admiral Sir Matthew Slattery |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=20 March 1990 |page=16 }}</ref><ref name="RBS History HFS">{{cite web |url=http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/people/list/henry-francis-slattery.html |title=Henry Francis Slattery |work=RBS Heritage Hub |publisher=Royal Bank of Scotland Group |date=2015 |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref> His father served as the chairman of The National Bank from 1888 to his death in 1911, and had other business interests, serving as the chairman of the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway, and as a director of several other railways and a number of insurance companies.<ref name="RBS History HFS" /><ref name="Tablet 20 May 1911">{{cite news |url=http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/issue/20th-may-1911/23/51806 |title=News from the dioceses |work=The Tablet |location=London |date=20 May 1911 |access-date=12 February 2017 |archive-date=12 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212091316/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/issue/20th-may-1911/23/51806 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Slattery was privately educated at Stonyhurst College before joining the Royal Navy on 15 January 1916, aged 13. He would continue his education at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, then the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.<ref name="Who Was Who" /><ref name="Times Obit" /><ref name="RN Service">{{cite web |url=http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersS2.html |title=Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939–1945 (Skel to Stal)) |work=Royal Navy (RN) Officers |publisher=Unit Histories |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref><ref name="Times Dec 1915">{{cite news |title=Naval Cadetships - Osborne Passing-In List |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=24 December 1915 |page=10 }}</ref>
==Military career==
Slattery was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant on 30 September 1923, then promoted to lieutenant on 19 June 1924.<ref name='Gazette Lt'>{{London Gazette |issue=32949 |date=24 June 1924 |page=4888 }}</ref> His early assignments included service aboard the monitor ship {{HMS|Erebus|I02|6}}, and service with the Fleet Air Arm (at the time, part of the Royal Air Force). Slattery was one of a small number of naval officers who took the first Fleet Air Arm training course in 1924, qualifying as a pilot at Netheravon Airfield.<ref name="RN Service" /><ref name="Times FAA">{{cite news |title=Naval Officer on Air Supply Board |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=10 June 1940 |page=3 }}</ref><ref name="Flight21061945">{{cite news |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1945/1945%20-%201223.html |title=Navy Appoints First Air Admiral |work=Flight International |date=21 June 1945 |access-date=14 February 2017 }}</ref>
He was promoted to lieutenant commander on 30 September 1931, after eight years service. His service as a lieutenant commander included service as the flight commander for 450 (Fleet Reconnaissance) Flight on the aircraft carrier {{HMS|Courageous|50|6}}, and attachment to the Admiralty.<ref name="RN Service" /><ref name='Gazette LtCdr'>{{London Gazette |issue=33758 |date=2 October 1931 |page=6308 }}</ref> Slattery was an early proponent of deck landings aboard ships thanks to his involvement with the Fleet Air Arm, and would remain heavily involved with carrier borne aircraft for the remainder of his naval career.<ref name="Times Obit" />
He was attached to the Royal Air Force during this time, and held the rank of flight lieutenant until November 1932.<ref name='Flt Lt Gazette'>{{London Gazette |issue=33881 |date=8 November 1932 |page=7088 }}</ref> He was re-attached to the Royal Air Force in 1934, and held the rank of squadron leader.<ref name='Sqn Ldr Gazette'>{{London Gazette |issue=34080 |date=21 August 1934 |page=5346 }}</ref>
He was promoted to commander at the end of 1934 whilst still attached to the Royal Air Force, shortly after, he was given his first command - the destroyer {{HMS|Winchelsea|D46|6}}.<ref name='Cdr Gazette'>{{London Gazette |issue=34120 |date=1 January 1935 |page=59 }}</ref> He would also command the heavy cruiser {{HMS|Sussex|96|6}} before moving to the Admiralty.<ref name="RN Service" /> Slattery was again attached to the Royal Air Force during 1938, and held the rank of wing commander.<ref name='Wng Cdr Gazette'>{{London Gazette |issue=34468 |date=31 December 1937 |page=8194 }}</ref>
Slattery was promoted to captain at the end of 1938, whilst still attached to the Royal Air Force, and was, at the time, the Royal Navy's youngest captain.<ref name="Times Obit" /><ref name='Cpt Gazette'>{{London Gazette |issue=34586 |date=3 January 1939 |page=56 }}</ref> He would be assigned the role Director of Air Material and then Director-General of Naval Aircraft Development and Production, Ministry of Aircraft Production.<ref name="RN Service" /> His work in these roles resulted in further development of the Fairey Swordfish and the introduction of the Hawker Sea Hurricane and the Supermarine Seafire.<ref name="Times Obit" />{{sfnp|McKinstry|2008}}
The command of {{HMS|Cleopatra|33|6}} followed in late 1941 and lasted through to June 1942, in what would be an eventful assignment.<ref name="RN Service" /> His next posting was to Kenya as Chief Staff Officer to Commodore-in-Charge Naval Air Stations at Mackinnon Road, before returning to the UK in February 1943, taking up the role of Chief Naval Representative, Ministry of Aircraft Production & Director-General of Naval Aircraft Development and Production.<ref name="RN Service" /> Slattery was promoted to commodore at the time of this posting.<ref name="RN Service" />
Slattery's final promotion, to the rank of rear-admiral occurred between June 1944 and July 1945, and his final role with the Royal Navy was a continuation of his previous role, with additional responsibilities, serving as Vice-Controller (Air), Chief of Naval Air Equipment and Chief Naval Representative and Director-General of Naval Aircraft Development and Production.<ref name="RN Service" />
He retired from the Royal Navy in 1948.<ref name="Who Was Who" /><ref name="Times Obit" /><ref name="RN Service" />
==Business career==
Slattery's business interests directly related to his military work; he was directly involved with aerospace and shipbuilding industries when he retired from active service.
thumb|Short Brothers built English Electric Canberra XH134
His first role, and that which he would hold for longest, was as managing director of the Northern Ireland-based Short Brothers and Harland, a role that he took up in 1948. He served solely as managing director until 1952, then additionally took on the role of chairman. Short Brothers and Harland main work was manufacturing aircraft under contract and licence agreements with the Ministry of Supply and other aircraft builders.<ref name="Times 1957">{{cite news |title=New Chairman for Bristol Aircraft |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=16 October 1957 |page=4 }}</ref> He was joined at Short Brothers and Harland by the naval aviator Captain Henry St John Fancourt, who served under Slattery as the Deputy Chief Naval Representative, Ministry of Aircraft Production.<ref name="Times Farbour Obituary 2004">{{cite news |title=Obituaries - Captain Henry Farcourt |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=13 January 2004 |page=26 }}</ref>
Slattery led Short Brothers and Harland at a time when they developed a number of experimental aircraft designs, though none would see significant production. The Short SC.1 was one of a number of experimental designs produced by Shorts, and is notable for being Britain's first vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The SC.1 pre-dated (and aided in the development of) the Hawker Siddeley Harrier.<ref name="Times 1957" />
He was appointed by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan in 1957 to become a special adviser on the transport of Middle East oil, with a brief on advising the Government how to avoid supply and delivery difficulties of the sort which had been encountered during the Suez Crisis.<ref name="Times 1957" /><ref name="Flight 1957 Middle East">{{cite news |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1957/1957%20-%200674.PDF |title=Sir Matthew's New Post |work=Flight International |date=24 May 1957 |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref><ref name="Hansard Middle East">{{Cite Hansard|house=House of Commons |title=Middle East Oil(Special Adviser) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1957/may/22/middle-east-oilspecial-adviser |date=27 May 1957 |column_start=80 |column_end=81}}</ref>
Slattery was elected to the board of Bristol, and appointed chairman of Bristol's aircraft manufacturing subsidiary, the Bristol Airplane Company in 1957.<ref name="Flight 1957 Bristol">{{cite news |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1957/1957%20-%201513.PDF |title=New Bristol Aircraft Chairman |work=Flight International |date=18 October 1957 |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref><ref name="Times 1957" /> Bristol (which had established a 15.25% shareholding in Short Brothers and Harland in 1954) would sign an agreement with Slattery for the production of the Bristol Britannia; at first it was expected that the turboprop airliner would be a sales success and the additional production line would be necessary to meet customer demand. The prolonged and troubled development of the Britannia resulted in the design being quickly overtaken by the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and for British customers in particular, the Vickers VC10.{{sfnp|Smallpeice|1981|p=129}} Short Brothers developed the Britannia into the Britannic 1, making use of many Britannia components including the wing and landing gear.<ref name="Flight 1959 Britannic">{{cite news |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1959/1959%20-%202064.html |title=Britannic 3A |work=Flight International |date=4 September 1959 |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref> The Britannic 1 was developed into the Britannic 3A (entering service as the Shorts Belfast) and had far less in common with the Britannia.<ref name="Flight 1959 Britannic" />
Just prior to his appointment with BOAC, he had taken up a position as a director of The National Bank, continuing the close association of the Slattery family with the bank. He would return to The National Bank after his period with BOAC.<ref name="Flight 1963 National Bank">{{cite news |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1963/1963%20-%202222.PDF |title=Sir Matthew Slattery's Appointment |work=Flight International |date=26 December 1963 |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref>
thumb|Bristol Britannia - Slattery oversaw their production as Bristol Aircraft chairman and then their operation as BOAC chairman
Slattery took over as chairman of the state owned carrier BOAC on 29 July 1960, after Gerard d'Erlanger stood down from the role to return to his other business interests. Slattery served as chairman on a full-time basis unlike d'Erlanger, who held the position on a part-time basis.<ref name="Flight 1960 Slattery">{{cite news |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1960/1960%20-%200920.PDF |title=BOAC's New Top Men |work=Flight International |date=1 July 1960 |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref><ref name="Hansard BOAC Appointment">{{Cite Hansard|house=House of Commons |title=B.O.A.C. Board (Appointments) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1960/jun/20/boac-board-appointments |date=20 June 1960 |column_start=25 |column_end=26}}</ref> The appointment to BOAC ended Slattery's 12 years with Shorts, he was replaced as chairman by his predecessor as Bristol Aircraft chairman, Cyril Uwins.<ref name="Who Was Who" /><ref name="Times 1960">{{cite news |title=Company Meetings - The Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=12 May 1961 |page=24 }}</ref> Slattery also joined the Airworthiness Requirements Board around the time of his appointment with BOAC.<ref name="Who Was Who" /> Slattery retained Basil Smallpeice as managing director, and the duo set about cutting costs at the airline as the deterioration which had begun under d'Erlanger's tenure continued. BOAC would incur significant losses in 1961 and 1962 amidst decreasing passenger loadings, comparatively high maintenance costs and ongoing payments to Vickers for the VC10 orders.{{sfnp|Smallpeice|1981|p=144–145}}
Basil Smallpeice, concerned about the financial performance of BOAC, the additional competition from Cunard Eagle Airways and the inability to obtain additional Boeing 707 aircraft any other way, began talks in April 1962 to merge BOAC's North Atlantic operations with those of Cunard Eagle.{{sfnp|Smallpeice|1981|p=158}}{{sfnp|Hyde|1975|p=299}} Agreement was reached in early June 1962 on ownership percentages, and the newly formed company, BOAC-Cunard, began operations later that month.{{sfnp|Smallpeice|1981|p=160}} The new airline would operate all the transatlantic services of BOAC and Cunard Eagle from 1962 to 1966.{{sfnp|Hyde|1975|p=300}} Slattery served as chairman of the joint venture, in addition to his role as chairman of BOAC itself.<ref name="Who Was Who" /><ref name="Times 1962 BOAC-Cunard">{{cite news |title=B.O.A.C and Cunard to join in £30m Enterprise |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=7 June 1962 |page=12 }}</ref>
The downturn in the aviation sector and fraught relations between Julian Amery, the new Minister of Aviation and BOAC concerning writing off debt (much of it incurred buying and troubleshooting new British aircraft) resulted in a further deterioration in relations between the airline and government.{{sfnp|Smallpeice|1981|p=170}}<ref name="Times Feb 1963">{{cite news |title=B.O.A.C - Ministry row denied |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=11 February 1963 |page=14 }}</ref> Amery commissioned an independent report into the financial performance of BOAC, undertaken by John Corbett.{{sfnp|Smallpeice|1981|p=171}} The ongoing disagreement about the funding arrangements for BOAC and the need for new Vickers VC10 aircraft would eventually be resolved in late 1963, when Slattery formally retired as chairman, though this was widely seen as a resignation; Slattery commented in 1964 that he had effectively been sacked.<ref name="Flight 1964 Slattery">{{cite news |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1964/1964%20-%202495.PDF |title=Sir Matthew Speaks |work=Flight International |date=17 September 1964 |access-date=19 December 2016 }}</ref>
Giles Guthrie, a respected aviator, merchant banker and director of British European Airways took over from Slattery as chairman. He credited the Slattery and Smallpeice management team for BOAC's return to profitability in 1964.{{sfnp|Smallpeice|1981|p=183}}
Slattery returned to The National Bank, retaking his seat on the board of directors after leaving BOAC.<ref name="Flight 1963 National Bank" /> He was also involved in the negotiations that the British Government undertook during 1966 to diversify Short Brothers and the connected Harland and Wolff shipbuilding business, following downturns in both businesses.<ref name="Hansard NI Adviser">{{Cite Hansard|house=House of Commons |title=Northern Ireland |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1966/aug/08/northern-ireland |date=8 August 1966 |column_start=1276 |column_end=1311}}</ref>
thumb|right|RFA Sir Bedivere, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company whilst Slattery was chairman
His next significant position was at the shipbuilder Hawthorn Leslie and Company, joining the board in 1964 and taking the role of chairman in 1966.<ref name="Times Hawthorn Board">{{cite news |title= Sir M. Slattery For Hawthorn, Leslie |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=30 April 1964 |page=20 }}</ref> The British shipbuilding industry at the time was in a period of significant upheaval, with changes in the shipping industry (particularly containerisation, which was being pioneered by Basil Smallpeice at Cunard) reducing demand for the traditional types of ship built in Britain.<ref name="Times Peter Hill 1974">{{cite news |last=Hill |first=Peter |title=Shipbuilders and the Government draw up their battle lines |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=1 August 1974 |page=26 }}</ref> The ''Geddes Report'' broadly encouraged rationalisation of the British shipbuilding industry, and Hawthorn Leslie would merge their shipbuilding assets with those of Swan Hunter, John Readhead & Sons and the River Tyne assets of Vickers-Armstrongs to form Swan Hunter Group in 1968.<ref name="Times Geddes Report">{{cite news |title= Geddes Report Suggests £67M. Loans To Streamline Shipyards |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=25 March 1966 |page=7 }}</ref><ref name="Times Tyne Merger">{{cite news |last=Cowton |first=Rodney |title= Four Tyne shipyards plan giant merger |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=15 June 1967 |page=21 }}</ref>
Hawthorn Leslie would take a 16.36% stake in the combined Swan Hunter Group (formally Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Limited), holding this until 1977 when the entire shipbuilding industry was nationalised to form British Shipbuilders.<ref name="Times Jan 1971">{{cite news |title=Company News - Hawthorns warning |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=5 Jan 1971 |page=17 }}</ref> Slattery served as a director of the Swan Hunter Group from the time of the merger in 1968 through to 1973, when he retired from Hawthorn Leslie and Company.<ref name="Times Nov 1973">{{cite news |title=Business appointments |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=20 November 1973 |page=26 }}</ref>
Slattery's final role before retirement was with the Air Registration Board, having joined in 1960, he retired from the ARB in May 1974.<ref name="Times ARB 1974">{{cite news |title=Latest appointments |work=The Times |location=London |publisher=Times Newspapers |date=29 May 1974 |page=16 }}</ref> He was first appointed to the ARB as an operators representative (and was succeeded in this role on the board by Giles Guthrie). He remained on the board after leaving BOAC, and took over from the late John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara as an independent representative.<ref name="Flight 30091960">{{cite news |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%202168.html |title=Sir Matthew for the ARB |work=Flight International |location=London |date=30 September 1960 |access-date=14 February 2017 }}</ref><ref name="Flight 24091964">{{cite news |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1964/1964%20-%202541.html |title=ARB Appointments |work=Flight International |location=London |date=24 September 1964 |access-date=14 February 2017 }}</ref>
==Personal life==
Slattery was married once, to Mica Mary Swain, daughter of Colonel DG Swain. They married in 1925 and had three children, two sons and one daughter.<ref name="Who Was Who" /> Their son, David Antony Slattery, was a noted occupational physician who served as Rolls-Royce plc's chief medical officer and later lectured at the University of Liverpool.<ref name="Who Was Who DrDA">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U35126 |title=Slattery, Dr David Antony Douglas |work=Who Was Who |publisher=A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc |date=April 2014 |access-date=11 February 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Mica survived her husband and died in 1998.<ref name="LG Estate">{{cite web |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-55432-123 |title=Lady Slattery |work=The London Gazette |date=17 March 1999 |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref>
Slattery was honoured several times during his career.<ref name="RN Service" /> He was first appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1946 New Year Honours for his work with the Ministry of Aircraft Supply.<ref name='CB'>{{London Gazette |issue=37407 |date=1 January 1946 |page=4 |supp=y }}</ref> He was then knighted (as a Knight Bachelor) in the 1955 New Year Honours for his work with Shotts and Harland.<ref name='Kt'>{{London Gazette |issue=40366 |date=1 January 1955 |page=2 |supp=y }}</ref> He was subsequently appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1960 New Year Honours for his work advising the government on the transport of oil from the Middle East.<ref name='KBE'>{{London Gazette |issue=41909 |date=1 January 1960 |page=10 |supp=y }}</ref>
The United States of America honoured Slattery with the Legion of Merit (Degree of Commander) in 1945, whilst in 1954, Queen's University Belfast awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree.<ref name='LoM'>{{London Gazette |issue=37995 |date=24 June 1947 |page=2890 }}</ref><ref name="QUB Honorary Degrees">{{cite web |url=https://www.qub.ac.uk/home/Discover/About-Queens/Leadership-and-structure/Registrars-Office/FileStore/Filetoupload,671298,en.pdf |title=Queen's University Belfast (formerly Queen's College Belfast) - Honorary Degrees 1871 - 2016 |publisher=Queen's University Belfast |access-date=14 February 2017 }}</ref> He was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1946, a significant honour for those involved in the aviation industry.<ref name="Who Was Who" />
Slattery listed his hobbies as "country pursuits" in his Who's Who entry.<ref name="Who Was Who" />
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