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British engineer

Dorothy Hatfield
BornJanuary 1940
Died16 April 2024(2024-04-16) (aged 84)
OccupationAeronautical engineer
EmployerVickers-Armstrongs

Dorothy Helen Hatfield OBE FRAeS née McRither (January 1940 – 16 April 2024), aeronautical engineer, was in 1956 the first female engineering apprentice at Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Brooklands. She became President of the Women's Engineering Society and was instrumental in setting up the Daphne Jackson Trust and the Lady Finniston Award for first year female engineering students. Hatfield was appointed an OBE for services to engineering in the 2014 Birthday Honours.

Life and career

Hatfield left school at 16 and successfully applied to be an engineering apprentice at Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, Brooklands, the first woman to do so. After six years she graduated with a first class honours degree in aeronautical engineering.

Hatfield returned to work after a career break to work in the flight simulation industry. She joined the Women's Engineering Society in 1962 and was its president from 1989 to 1991. She became a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1996.

Recognition

For her work with the Women's Engineering Society, Hatfield was awarded the Isabel Hardwich Medal in 2007.

See also

Janet Gulland became the first female graduate apprentice at Vickers-Armstrongs in 1958.

References

  1. ^ "Obituary". The Woman Engineer. 22 (3): 4. Summer 2024.
  2. "WES Lady Finniston Awards". Women's Engineering Society. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Dorothy Hatfield". Women's Engineering Society. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  4. "Queen's Birthday Honours recognise Stem champions". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  5. "Queen honours engineer and village stalwart". West Sussex Today. 19 June 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  6. "Isabel Hardwich Medal". Women's Engineering Society. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  7. "Brooklands Museum :: LGBTQ at Brooklands: Janet Gulland". www.brooklandsmuseum.com. Retrieved 21 June 2023.


Further reading

https://electrifyingwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2020/05/Dorothy-Hatfield-BIO.pdf


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