1. John Adrian Shepherd-Barron OBE was an India-born British inventor, who led the team that installed the first cash machine, sometimes referred to as the automated teller machine or ATM.
11 Facts About John Shepherd-Barron
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John Adrian Shepherd-Barron was born on 23 June 1925 in Shillong, India, to British parents.
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John Shepherd-Barron's Scottish father, Wilfred Shepherd-Barron, was chief engineer of the Chittagong Port Commissioners in North Bengal, which was then part of the British Empire, then later Chief Engineer of the Port of London Authority, before becoming president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, whilst his mother Dorothy, was an Olympic tennis player and Wimbledon ladies doubles champion.
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John Shepherd-Barron was educated at Stowe School, the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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John Shepherd-Barron conceived the idea for a self-service machine dispensing cash whilst lying in the bath.
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John Shepherd-Barron was considering the problem of bank opening hours, having turned up at a bank after closing time one day and found himself unable to withdraw money.
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John Shepherd-Barron received the OBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours list for services to banking as "inventor of the automatic cash dispenser".
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However, John Shepherd-Barron's machine was the first to be installed, if only for a few days.
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One, Nicholas John Shepherd-Barron FRS, is professor of algebraic geometry at the King's College London.
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John Adrian Shepherd-Barron died on 15 May 2010 after a brief illness at the age of 84 in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, Scotland.
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John Shepherd-Barron was survived by his wife and their three sons, and extended family.