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Sir Harold Bishop CBE (29 October 1900 – 22 October 1983) was a British broadcasting engineer. He was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers for 1953-54.

He helped organize broadcasts by SHAEF. He was Chief Engineer at the BBC, where from 1952 to 1956 his title was Director of Technical Services and from 1956 to 1963 Director of Engineering.

He was knighted in 1955. In 1966, he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa.

Notes

1. 1939 England and Wales Register
2. Turner, L. W. (22 October 2013). Electronics Engineer's Reference Book. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 9781483161273.
3. "Obituary: Sir Harold Bishop – Contribution to Broadcasting". The Times. 26 October 1983. p. 14.
4. Spragg, Dennis M. (1 September 2017). Glenn Miller Declassified. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781612348957.
5. Briggs, Asa (1995). The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780192129673.
6. "Recollections of BBC engineering from 1922 to 1997". BBC. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
7. "No. 40497". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1955. p. 3257.

References

• Baker, Anne Pimlott. "Bishop, Sir Harold". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65412. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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