Douglas Pask
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|name = Commander Douglas Alexander Pask
|nationality = British
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|3|23|df=y}}
|birth_place = Preston, Lancashire, England
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|5|20|1919|3|23|df=y}}
|death_place = Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
|education = Imperial College London Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1941
|spouse = Olga Denise Fletcher
|parents = Vincent Alexander Pask and Ethel May Silver
|children = Alastair Dominic Alexander Pask, Melanie Juanita Pask
|discipline = {{unbulleted list|Electrical Engineer}}
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Douglas Pask BSc, AMIEE, AMIMechE (1919-2008) served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the World War 2. He entered as an acting temporary electrical sub-lieutenant on the 13 October 1941 and becoming a temporary electrical lieutenant on 1 June 1943.{{cite book|title=The Navy List|date=July 1945|publisher=Royal Navy|page=1619|edition=Volume II}} He sailed with the Swedish convoy ship Vaalaren from Liverpool to New York on the 13 April 1942 at the age of 23. On the 1 June 1951 he became lieutenant commander at HMS Flying Fox, Mardyke Wharf in Bristol later joining the London branch in 1958. He married Olga Fletcher in 1959 in the Whitehaven registration district. He was promoted to commander on 31 December 1960. Afterwards, he was involved for 38 years in the electrical industry.{{cite web|last1=Young|first1=Bill|title=Something in the environment : a conflict of value|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/library/digital-archive/program/video:FOUT122P|website=Open University Digital Archive|publisher=Open University|accessdate=6 April 2018|ref=FOUT122P}} Much of his career was in the construction of nuclear power stations.{{cite book|title=Nuclear Energy|date=1979|publisher=British Nuclear Energy Society|page=398|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RdJAQAAIAAJ&q=%22d+pask%22+cegb|accessdate=6 April 2018}}
Professional career
He served his apprenticeship with Metropolitan-Vickers and then, after war service, was a special trainee with Edmundson Electrical. From 1946 he was assistant engineer in the British European Airways South West Division construction branch and then resident engineer with the Central Electricity Generating Board at East Yelland power station.{{cite book|title=Nuclear Engineering|date=1963|publisher=Temple Press|page=155|edition=Volume 8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzhWAAAAMAAJ&q=cegb+pask|accessdate=11 April 2018}} Between 1958 and 1961 he was with their Southern Project Group with particular responsibility for Bradwell nuclear power station and Berkeley nuclear power station. He became director of the Central Electricity Generating Board Northern Project group where he oversaw the construction of the first Hinton Heavy West Burton Power Station attending the opening ceremony with Arthur Hawkins and Sir Stanley Brown.
When he became director general of the South West region of Central Electricity, he oversaw the race between Hinkley Point B Nuclear Power Station and Hunterston B nuclear power station to become the first Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor to synchronise to the grid.{{cite web|last1=McInerney|first1=Tom|title=An Oral History of the Electricity Supply in the UK|url=https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Industry-water-steel-and-energy/021M-C1495X0026XX-0006V0|website=Sounds.bl.uk|accessdate=6 April 2018|ref=Industry: water, steel & energy}}
In 1982 he was awarded an OBE for services to the electricity industry.{{cite journal|title=Order of the British Empire|journal=The London Gazette|date=12 June 1982|volume=49008|page=11|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/49008/supplement/11|accessdate=6 April 2018}} He was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration. He was survived by his son, Dominic.{{cite web|last1=Pask|first1=Mrs D|title=Commander Douglas A. Pask (Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1941)|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/40274/commander-douglas-pask-electrical-electronic-engineering/|website=Imperial College London}} His daughter Dr Melanie J. Pask PhD (Imperial College London) predeceased him two years earlier.{{cite web|title=One-Name Study of Surnames|url=http://pask.org.uk/Pask-p/p181.htm|website=Pask.org.uk|accessdate=11 April 2018}}
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{{cite book|last1=Ledger|first1=Frank|title=Crisis Management in the Power Industry: An Inside Story|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1351394291|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrA0DwAAQBAJ&q=Crisis+Management+in+the+Power+Industry%3A+An+Inside+Story|accessdate=6 April 2018|date=2017-09-08}}
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