Philip Vassar Hunter

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Philip Vassar Hunter CBE (c. 1883 – October 22, 1956) was a British engineer and businessman. Born in 1883 he died at his home in Addington, Surrey aged 73.[1]

During the First World War he was the Engineering Director in the experiments and research section of the anti-submarine division of the Naval Staff[1] and was awarded the CBE in January 1920.[2] In the Second World War he invented the buoyant cable which contributed to the defeat of the magnetic mine.[3] In 1933 he was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers [4] of which he became on honorary fellow in 1951[5] for "outstanding service to the electrical industry and to the institution".[3]

He was president of the British Ice Hockey Association from 1934 to 1958[6] and was responsible for hiring John F "Bunny" Ahearne in 1934 as the Manager of the Great Britain national ice hockey team which went on to win the gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b The Guardian, 24 October 1956 
  2. ^ London Gazette: 3767, 30 March 1920 
  3. ^ a b The Guardian: 5, 12 January 1951 
  4. ^ The Institution of Engineering and Technology (2007). Past Presidents of the IEE. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
  5. ^ The Institution of Engineering and Technology (2007). Honorary Fellows. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
  6. ^ A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey. BIHA. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
Preceded by
Edgar Walford Marchant		 President of the IEE
1933		 Succeeded by
William Mundell Thornton OBE
Preceded by
Major B M "Peter" Patton		 President of the BIHA
1934–58		 Succeeded by
Sir Victor Tait KBE
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