b'Member News November 2023 29ObituariesMaldwyn Noel JohnBSc FREng HonFIETIEE Past President, 1929-2023Maldwyn Noel John was born in Pontypridd, Wales, on 25 December 1929. He was educated at Pontypridd Grammar School and University College, Cardiff, where he gained his BSc with first class honours in 1950.He was awarded the University Page Medal.After four yearsIn August 1969 Mal joinedexceptional contribution to postgraduate training, heKennedy & Donkin asthe standing and commercial joined the power systemsChief Electrical Engineersuccess of the IEE as Chair engineering departmentand he was taken into theof the Wiring Regulations of Metropolitan-Vickers inpartnership in April 1972.Committee during the crucial Manchester. From 1959- As Chief Electrical Engineer,period from 1985 to 1992, 1962, he was a group leaderhe was responsible for thiswhen the Wiring Regulations on analogue computationtechnical area of the firmsbecame a British Standard with the UK Atomic Energywork in several countriesfor the first time, and his Authority. He returned toincluding distribution andsubsequent chairmanship of Metropolitan-Vickers, whichtransmission at voltagesthe joint IEE/BSI Committee had then become AEI Ltd.,up to 500 kV, a control andJPEL/64. He wrote many as Assistant Chief Engineer,load dispatch centre intechnical papers and Power Systems, responsibleLibya using electronic data- published books on Practical for system studies. In 1965processing techniques andDiakoptics for Electrical he became Chief Engineera 230 MW pumped storageNetworks and Power Circuit-of the systems engineeringpower station in Northernbreaker Theory and Design.department, which providedIreland. Among the studies a digital computationand feasibility reports forHe chaired the IEE Power service to all the AEI designwhich he was technicallyDivisional Board, and, after departments. From 1966- responsible were those forelection to Council, served as 1968 he was Divisionalthe Uganda and MalawiPresident of the Institution Chief Engineer, Transformertransmission systems and theof Electrical Engineers in Division, responsible forcentral electrical laboratories,1983/84. For the same Maldwyn Noel John BSc FREng HonFIET advanced development workand Tehran regionalperiod he was also President and co ordinating specialelectrification scheme in Iran.of EUREL, the Convention developments in transmissionHe retired from the companyof National Societies of by high-voltage DC and ACas Chairman in 1994. Electrical Engineers of resonance links. In 1968 heWestern Europe. He was was appointed Manager ofMal John was closelyelected a Fellow of the Royal the AC Transmission Division,involved with the IET WiringAcademy of Engineering in GEC Switchgear Ltd, whereRegulations (BS 7671), the1979 and an Honorary Fellow he had complete technicalnational standard to whichof the IEE in 1998.and commercial responsibilityelectrical installations should for special projects in ACconform, and the basis for transmission, distribution andsimilar codes in many other industrial power systems. countries. He made an'