{{short description|British engineer and governor of university college, Nairobi}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Rose Winslade | honorific_suffix = OBE | image = Rosina_Winslade_commonly_known_as_Rose.png | caption = Winslade talking to the BBC | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1919|07|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|12|16|1918|07|22|df=yes}} | death_place = London, England | death_cause = | other_names = Rose Winslade | known_for = President of the Women's Engineering Society and a governor of University College, Nairobi. | education = | employer = Council of Engineering Institutions | occupation = Engineer | footnotes = }} '''Rosina Winslade''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} (22 July 1919 – 16 December 1981)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www2.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/research/wes/WES_Vol_9.html|title=The Woman Engineer Vol 9|last=|first=|date=|website=www2.theiet.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-07-06}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www2.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/research/wes/WES_Vol_13.html|title=The Woman Engineer Vol 13|last=|first=|date=|website=www2.theiet.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-07-06}}</ref> was a British engineering manager who became President of the Women's Engineering Society and a governor of University College, Nairobi.
==Early life== Winslade was born in London in 1919 to Alice Margaret (née Harris) and Charles James Winslade.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/offers/join?sub=9288974879195136&dbid=7579&url=https%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26dbid%3d7579%26h%3d48842779%26usePUB%3dtrue%26_phsrc%3dalx159%26_phstart%3dsuccessSource%26requr%3d9288974879195136%26ur%3d0&gsfn=&gsln=&h=48842779|title=Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007.|last=|first=|date=|website=www.ancestry.co.uk|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-07-06}}</ref> She left school at fourteen, starting work in a factory.
== Career == She became fascinated by the engineering processes she saw in the factory and decided to make engineering her career.<ref name=":1" />
Winslade joined the Women's Engineering Society in 1946. She was a keen member and became the chair of the London Branch.<ref name="r66">[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Rose_Winslade The Engineer, 12 December 1966]</ref>
Winslade came to notice in 1960 when she was one of two engineers funded by the Caroline Haslett Memorial Trust founded by the British Electricity Authority. They were to investigate the role of female engineers in the USSR. At the time she was a senior sales engineer at Research and Control Instruments Ltd and she was accompanied by Lesley S. Souter who was employed in Harlow by the AEI Research Laboratory.<ref>[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Rose_Winslade The Times, Jun 25, 1960] (attrib. Graces Guide)</ref>
She continued to work for Research and Control Instruments Ltd becoming an assistant manager in 1960 and between 1962 and 1965 she held a higher managerial position as Joint Manager (Technical) of their electronics division. It was noted that this was unusually high for a woman.<ref name=":1" />
She worked as an Assistant Secretary the Council of Engineering Institutions looking after their overseas links including the British link to the European Federation of National Association of Engineers. In 1969 she was appointed for two years as a Governor of University College, Nairobi. Her first meeting there was held during a three-week visit in April where she also visited other colleges.<ref name="Ofori1969">{{cite book|author=Henry Ofori|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ULlnHy-7UokC&pg=PA5|title=Daily Graphic: Issue 5,820 June 18 1969|date=18 June 1969|publisher=Graphic Communications Group|pages=5–|id=GGKEY:FKP2KZ6K3B2}}</ref>
== Women's Engineering Society == Winslade was employed by the Council of Engineering Institutions in 1966 when she was serving as President of the Women's Engineering Society<ref name="r66" /> to which position she was elected on 4 September 1965.<ref name=":0" /> At that time the BBC reported that there were 400 women engineers in the UK.
Winslade appeared on the BBC as she reported on a week long second International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists conference in Cambridge in 1967. The BBC also interviewed Elizabeth Laverick who was to take over from her as WES President.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1014112770600493056|title=#OTD 1967: Women engineers from all over the world began a one week conference at Cambridgepic.twitter.com/0HZt3aa7Jn|date=2018-07-03|author=@BBCArchive|language=en|access-date=2019-07-06|website=twitter.com}}</ref> At the conference, she was photographed being taught how to wear a sari by Indian engineer K. K. Khubchandani alongside fellow WES members and engineers Cicely Thompson, Hettie Bussell and US delegates Louise Davies and Betty Lou Bailey.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Woman Engineer Vol 10|url=https://twej.theiet.org/twej/WES_Vol_10.html|access-date=2021-04-05|website=twej.theiet.org}}</ref>
Winslade was appointed an OBE for services to women in engineering in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/research/wes/WES_Vol_13.html|title=The Woman Engineer|website=www2.theiet.org|access-date=2019-07-06}}</ref>
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