Frederick W. Lanchester

Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS , an English polymath and engineer, made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and coinvented the topic of operations research.

Lanchester was born in Lewisham, London to Henry Jones Lanchester , an architect, and his wife Octavia , a tutor of Latin and mathematics. He was the fourth of eight children his older brother Henry Vaughan Lanchester also became an architect his younger sister Edith Lanchester was a socialist and suffragette and his brothers George Herbert Lanchester and Frank joined him in forming the Lanchester Motor Company.

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