# Ted Liddiard
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{{Short description|English metallurgist and company director (1901–1994)}}
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| name = Edwin Andrew Guthrie Liddiard
| birth_name = Edwin Andrew Guthrie Liddiard
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| birth_place = [Thornton Heath](/source/Thornton_Heath), Surrey
| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|4|20|1903|11|30}}
| death_place = [Slough](/source/Slough), Buckinghamshire
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| alma_mater = Christ's Hospital School and University of Cambridge
| occupation = Metallurgist and founder director of the Fulmer Research Institute
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'''Edwin Andrew Guthrie Liddiard''' (30 November 1903 – 20 April 1981) was an English [metallurgist](/source/metallurgist) who was chosen by Col. [Wallace Charles Devereux](/source/Wallace_Charles_Devereux) to be the first director of the [Fulmer Research Institute](/source/Fulmer_Research_Institute).[{{cite journal |date= 1969 |title= Mr Liddiard retires from Fulmer |journal= Physics Bulletin |volume=20 |issue=8 |pages=338–339 |url= https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9112/20/8/016 |doi=10.1088/0031-9112/20/8/016|url-access=subscription }}][{{cite journal |date= 1981 |title=Obituary: E A G Liddiard |journal= Physics Bulletin |volume=32 |issue=6 |pages=189}}] Under Liddiard's direction, Fulmer developed as Britain's first independent contract R&D organisation.
Liddiard became Chairman of the London section of the [Institute of Metals](/source/Institute_of_Metals), he was a member of the Inter-Services Metallurgical Council and he became Chairman and then Honorary Secretary of the Association of Consulting Scientists. He was instrumental in setting up and maintaining the Register of Consulting Scientists.
== Education ==
Liddiard was educated at [Christ's Hospital School](/source/Christ's_Hospital_School), but his schooling there ended prematurely due to a serious road traffic accident in 1920. The accident kept him in hospital for six months, and then required him to use a wheelchair and crutches for a further five months.
In 1922 he took a job as a laboratory assistant at [Cammell Laird](/source/Cammell_Laird) [Cyclops Iron and Steel works in Sheffield](/source/Cyclops_Works%2C_Sheffield) and while there, he took evening classes at Sheffield University aiming for Associateship of the Institute of Metals. However, in 1925 an opportunity arose for him to go to Cambridge where he took Part I of the [Natural Science Tripos](/source/Natural_Science_Tripos) in chemistry, physics and mineralogy and went on to study metallurgy for the final year, graduating in 1928.
== Career ==
Liddiard joined [ICI Billingham](/source/ICI_Billingham) as a research metallurgist where he specialised in corrosion problems then in 1931 he joined the [British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association](/source/British_Non-Ferrous_Metals_Research_Association), where he eventually became research manager. At BNF during [World War II](/source/World_War_II), Liddiard worked on copper alloys resistant to impingement attack, on controlled corrosion mechanisms for the release of mines, on the supply of magnesium aluminium [eutectic](/source/eutectic) alloys, and on the development of anti-ASDIC [submarine bubble target](/source/sonar_decoy)s. He did experimental work on alloys for the [Tube Alloys](/source/Tube_Alloys) project. After the war, in 1945, Liddiard accepted the invitation of Col Devereux to be the founding director of [Fulmer Research Institute](/source/Fulmer_Research_Institute).[{{cite journal |date= 11 April 1946 |title= Mr Liddiard retires from Fulmer |journal= Flight |page=377}}][{{cite journal |last=Liddiard |first= E A G |date= 1965 |title= The Fulmer Research Institute |journal= Physics Bulletin |volume=16 |issue=5 |pages=161–169 |url= https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9112/16/5/001 |doi=10.1088/0031-9112/16/5/001|url-access=subscription }}]
== Other activities ==
Liddiard became Chairman of the London section of the Institute of Metals, he was a member of the Inter-Services Metallurgical Council and, after his retirement from the Executive Directorship of Fulmer, he became Chairman and then Honorary Secretary of the Association of Consulting Scientists.
He was instrumental in setting up and maintaining the Register of Consulting Scientists, carrying on with this as editor and registrar after his retirement from Fulmer.
In 1971 and 1972 he was sent on United Nations missions to Pakistan and Iran, to advise on the setting up of centres for metallurgical technology. His work in Pakistan has led, through a further [UNIDO](/source/UNIDO) contract with Fulmer, to the setting up of a successful independent Metals Advisory service there, now part of [PSQCA](/source/PSQCA).
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