Brigadier-General Sir "Hay" Frederick Donaldson KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (7 July 1856 - 5 June 1916) was an English mechanical engineer.

He was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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, Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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, University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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 and Zurich University.

He was Chief Superintendent of the Royal Ordnance Factories

Royal Arsenal

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, Woolwich

Woolwich

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, before the First World War and chief engineering adviser to the Ministry of Munitions under Lloyd George

David Lloyd George

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He was one of the advisers selected to accompany the Secretary of State for War

Secretary of State for War

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 Lord Kitchener

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

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 on a mission to Russia in June 1916 and perished with all but 12 others when their ship, HMS Hampshire

HMS Hampshire (1903)

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, struck a German mine off the Orkney Islands

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He was president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

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 in 1913 and 1914.

On 15 July 1884, he married Selina Beresford (1859-1938), daughter of Colonel Francis Beresford

Francis Beresford

Colonel Francis Marcus Beresford was a British Conservative Party politicianHe was born at Aylestone, Leicestershire, and was Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1870 to 1880....

MP. They had three children.