What position did Clifford Wilcock take from Oct 1959 to 1962?
Clifford Wilcock Group Captain Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock , ( 28 April 1898 – 14 January 1962 ) was a British engineer , company director and politician who is noted for his contributions to civil and military aviation . Great War service . Born in Luton , Bedfordshire , Wilcock was educated at St Dunstans College in Catford . He had joined the 14th London Regiment ( London Scottish ) in 1912 and served with them in the First World War , later transferring to the Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment . Wounded at Ypres , he was seconded into the Royal Flying Corps in June 1917 on his recovery , and he became a founding member of the Royal Air Force . He won the Air Force Cross in 1919 . Royal Air Force . At the end of the war Wilcock studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh before rejoining the RAF with no . 208 Squadron in Egypt and Constantinople from 1921 to 1923 . He alternated between home postings dealing with administration , and engineering work on RAF bases ( including in Iraq until 1932 ) . Among his posts was assisting at the Experimental Establishment in Felixstowe . From July 1935 he was on administrative duties at Ruislip , where he founded one of the first Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Squadrons in 1937 . Second World War . Retiring in September 1938 with the rank of Group Captain , Wilcock became a broker and underwriter at Lloyds of London . He was a Freeman of the City of London . On the outbreak of the Second World War he offered his services and was made an Air Ministry civil servant ( Deputy Director of Manning ) , and ultimately rose to Senior Personnel Officer for RAF Transport Command . He was awarded the OBE in 1944 . Parliament . A member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society since 1921 , Wilcock was chosen in February 1945 as one of the Labour candidates for Derby , a two-member constituency . He and his fellow candidate Philip Noel-Baker won the seat in the 1945 general election with majorities over 20,000 . After the Boundary Commission split Derby into two single-member seats , Wilcock was elected for Derby North from 1950 . He specialised in aviation issues , and was Chairman of a departmental committee on training and recruitment for civil aviation from 1946 to 1949 . He was also made a Director of several aviation companies , including Derby Aviation . Moderate in his politics , Wilcock was not a frequent speaker in the House of Commons , but he was respected for his knowledge of his subject . He was made a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and also developed an interest in health , being a member of the Medical Research Council and a Governor of Westminster Hospital . He had six children . He died in Westminster . References . - Obituary , The Times , 15 January 1962 .