Marmaduke Tudsbery Tudsbery

Marmaduke Tudsbery Tudsbery, CBE (4 October 1892 – 9 May 1983) was a British civil engineer. After beginning his career at a shipbuilders yard in Glasgow he joined the British Army during the First World War, rising to the acting rank of major. Tudsbery left the army to join the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1926. At the BBC he selected the site for Broadcasting House, which he helped to design, and the BBC Television Centre. Tudsbery was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1941 Birthday Honours and served as president of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers from 1956 to 1957. He also travelled widely and published accounts of his journeys.

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