Sir Jack Cecil Drummond FRIC, FRS, known as a child as Jack Cecil Spinks, was a biochemist, noted for his work on nutrition as applied to the British diet under rationing during the Second World War.
17 Facts About Jack Drummond
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Jack Drummond was born either in Leicester, or London, likely Newington or Kennington.
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Jack Drummond was the son of Colonel John Drummond of the Royal Horse Artillery and Nora Gertrude McQuie, who had resided at 65 Howard Road, Clarendon Park, Leicester.
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John Drummond died at age 55, only three months after Jack's birth.
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Jack Drummond attended The John Roan School in Greenwich and King's College School.
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On 17 July 1915, Jack Drummond married Mable Helen Straw, who had been an undergraduate at East London College.
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In 1917, Halliburton invited Jack Drummond to join him in experimental work on substitutes for butter and margarine.
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Jack Drummond was Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences from 1929 to 1932.
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When Lord Woolton became Minister of Food in April 1940, Jack Drummond produced a plan for the distribution of food based on "sound nutritional principles".
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Jack Drummond recognised that rationing was the perfect opportunity to attack what he called "dietetic ignorance" and that, if successful, he would be able not just to maintain but to improve the nation's health.
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Jack Drummond was Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal Institution from 1941 to 1944.
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Jack Drummond was knighted in the 1944 New Year Honours and elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 16 March 1944.
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In 1944, Jack Drummond became an adviser on nutrition to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and in 1945 to the allied control commissions for Germany and Austria.
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Jack Drummond was succeeded as Chief Scientific Advisor by Norman Charles Wright.
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Jack Drummond's career move to Boots at Nottingham was surprising to many of his former colleagues.
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Jack Drummond's lay on the other side of the N96, covered by a camp bed.
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Jack Drummond's head had been brutally smashed in by the stock of the rifle.