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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2016
On 13th May 1915, the Minister of Education, speaking in the House of Commons, said, “Our successes over our enemy in aviation are largely due to the investigations made into automatic stability by a young man who went through an elementary school.”
That young man was Leonard Bairstow, who began his early education in the elementary and secondary schools of Halifax, Yorkshire, and obtained a scholarship at the Royal College of Science, London, in 1898.
H. E. Wimperis, who became President of the Society in 1937, was a student at the Royal College of Science at the same time as Bairstow and declared in later years, “I remember that, for several decades there, the most brilliant student that had been produced by the College was Professor Bairstow. He had an uncanny faculty of making himself acquainted with and making completely original suggestions on subjects which we did not think he knew anything about.”