On This Day -18th November

On this day in 1911, Sir Cuthbert Quilter died.

Born in 1841, Cuthbert was a stockbroker and, from 1885-1906, an MP for Sudbury, credited with introducing a bill to secure the purity of beer.

In 1896, Sir Cuthbert began work on building Bawdsey Manor, where, in the shadow of the Second World War, the radar technology that proved vital in the Allied victory in the Battle of Britain was developed.