Stanley Fabes Dorey, 1891-1972

Abstract

Stanley Fabes Dorey was Chief Engineer Surveyor, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, from 1932 to 1956. His whole professional career was spent with Lloyd’s Register. He made outstanding contributions to engineering science and practice which extended far beyond the marine field. He was born on 28 November 1891, the second son of William Dorey, of London and Worthing. He was educated at Owen’s School, Islington, and at the School at H.M. Dockyard, Chatham, where he served an apprenticeship. He gained both a Whitworth exhibition and a Lloyd’s Register scholarship in marine engineering. With these he went in 1912 to Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he graduated B.Sc. in 1914 and M.Sc. in 1922. In 1932 he was awarded the degree of D.Sc. by Durham University to which Armstrong College was then affiliated. Following the outbreak of war in 1914, he obtained a commission in the Durham Light Infantry. A few months later he was transferred to the Royal Navy, in which he served for the remainder of the war as an Engineer Officer. He was demobilized with the rank of Engineer Lieutenant, R.N.