Biography
Ivor Catt was born in England and grew up on an RAF airbase in Singapore. He left the country, along with his mother and sister, just before the Japanese invasion in 1942. He did his National Service stationed in Germany. He won a scholarship to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University, but transferred to engineering.
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