Stephen Tetlow
Stephen Tetlow | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Stephen John Tetlow |
| Born | June 1954 (age 67) Basford, Nottingham, England |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  British Army |
| Rank | Brigadier |
| Commands held | Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Brigadier Stephen John Tetlow MBE (born June 1954) is an engineer and former senior British Army officer.
Biography[]
Tetlow was born in Basford, Nottingham,[1] and was educated at Burton Joyce Primary School and Carlton le Willows Grammar School, where he aspired to drive trains.[2]
Tetlow had been promoted to Major by 1991, when he had received his MBE.[3] He was then promoted to Colonel by 2011, when he dismissed claims put forward by author Tim Blackmore that emerging technology would revolutionize battlespace in the near future - commenting that "conflict is, and will remain, essentially a human activity".[4] Later promoted to Brigadier, he was gazetted to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He was Director of the Corps from 2002 to 2005.[5]
After military service, Tetlow became Chief Executive of VOSA (formerly the Vehicle Inspectorate) in December 2004 following the retirement of Maurice Newey. Newey had been appointed chief executive of the Vehicle Inspectorate in 1998 and became the first chief executive of VOSA in 2003.[6]
Tetlow left VOSA in 2008 to become the Chief Executive of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He resigned from the IMechE after members tabled a motion expressing no confidence in Stephen Tetlow to manage the affairs of the institute and the operation of its trading subsidiaries. This was the first such motion in the 170 years of the Institute. [7] He currently resides in the Blackdown Hills, Devon in a house featured on Grand Designs.[8] He has since led an expedition to South Georgia in order to retrace the steps of Ernest Shackleton.[9]
References[]
- ^ "England & Wales, Birth Index, 1916–2005 for Stephen J Tetlow". Retrieved 26 August 2015 – via Ancestry.com.
- ^ "Honorary Members". Institution of Primary Engineers. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
- ^ "Supplement to the London Gazette, 13 May 1991" (PDF). Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ Blackmore 2011, p. 33
- ^ "Profile". EngineeringUK. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ "Stephen Tetlow resigns as VOSA chief executive". www.commercialmotor.com. 11 December 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ "Tetlow quits IMechE following training firm rumpus". 29 July 2018.
- ^ "Blackdown Hills". granddesigns.tv. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ^ "Stephen Tetlow - Institution of Mechanical Engineers". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
Bibliography[]
- Blackmore, Tim (2011). War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1442613881.
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