Laurence Joseph Clancy (15 March 1929 - 16 October 2014[1]) was an Education Officer in aerodynamics at Royal Air Force College Cranwell where his textbook Aerodynamics became standard.
He was born in Egypt to Alfred Joseph Clancy and Agnes Hunter.[citation needed] In 1951 he gained a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree from the University of Liverpool.[2]
Clancy studied aerodynamics[when?] at the College of Aeronautics at RAF Cranfield, where his teachers were Terence Nonweiler, later of Glasgow University, and Geoffrey Lilley, later of Southampton University.[citation needed] Clancy qualified as an Education Officer with the RAF and began teaching at Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
After 16 years with the Royal Air Force, Clancy had a long career at the University of Bradford where he served as Dean of Engineering.[1] He was a colleague of John Brian Helliwell.[citation needed]
He married Barbara Consterdine in 1952, they separated in 1969. He has 4 children from this marriage, Peter, Helen, Caroline & Jillian. In 1972 he married Eileen Tyne,(Nee Smith), they separated in 1986. He was married to Jane Bingham.[1] from 1992 until his death.
- ^ a b c "Laurence Joseph Clancy, Death Notice". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ In Memoriam Archived 2017-01-16 at the Wayback Machine from University of Liverpool
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