Ted Horlick

Vice-Admiral Sir Edwin John Horlick KBE FREng FIMechE MIMarEST (born 28 September 1925), was Director General of British Ships (1979–83) and Chief Naval Engineer Officer (1981–83).[1]

Vice-Admiral

Sir Edwin John Horlick

KBE
Born (1925-09-28) September 28, 1925
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
RankVice-Admiral
AwardsKBE

Career

Edwin John Horlick was born on 28 September 1925.[2] He was educated at Bedford Modern School.[2]

Horlick joined the Royal Navy in 1943.[2] He was Squadron Engineering Officer in the 2nd Frigate Squadron (1960–63) before joining the Ship Department at the Ministry of Defence (1963–66).[2]

Horlick was First Assistant to the Chief Engineer at HM Dockyard, Singapore between 1966 and 1968 and Assistant Director of Submarines between 1969 and 1972.[2] He completed the Senior Officer’s War Course in 1973 and thereafter was Fleet Marine Engineering Officer, Staff of Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet between 1973 and 1975.[2]

Horlick attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1976 and was later made Director of the Project Team for Submarine/Polaris between 1977 and 1979.[2] He was Director General of Ships between 1979 and 1983.[2] In 1982 Sir Ted delivered a paper on Submarine Propulsion in the Royal Navy at the fifty-fourth Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture delivered to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London on 26 January 1982.[3]

Horlick was Chief Naval Engineer Officer between 1981 and 1983.[2] He was invested KBE in 1981.[4]

Family life

Horlick married Jean Margaret Covington who predeceased him; they had four sons.[2]

gollark: Anyway, I think the SSD was my inspiration for the massively scaled-down version running my systems.
gollark: Madness.
gollark: See, the 7 drives there in a pillar are quite uncool, since there are few of them and the lights do not change much.
gollark: Because walking through a room of blinky lights is cool.
gollark: One day I'll probably just switch to giant racks of 1k cells.

References
  1. Who’s Who 1998, Published by A&C Black Limited
  2. "HORLICK, Edwin John (born 1925), part-time consultant". oup.com. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  3. "Rebuilding the Royal Navy". google.co.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  4. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/48639/supplement/5/data.pdf
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