Ernest Gold (meteorologist)

Ernest Gold CB DSO OBE FRS[1] (24 July 1881 – 30 January 1976) was a British meteorologist.[2][3][4]

Ernest Gold
Born24 July 1881 
Died30 January 1976  (aged 94)
Hendon (United Kingdom) 
OccupationMeteorologist 
Awards
Mason University College, now the University of Birmingham

He was born at Berkswell, near Coventry and educated at Mason University College (which later became the University of Birmingham)[5] and St John's College, Cambridge.[6]


Gold set up the first operational (military) meteorological service and demonstrated the vital role of meteorologists to the military hierarchy. He was mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the DSO and OBE and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Gold oversaw not only the creation of an operational weather service but also the development of international aviation services, becoming President of the Commission for Synoptic Weather Information of the International Meteorological Organization (now the World Meteorological Organization).

In 1919 he became Deputy Director of the Meteorological Office.[7]

He was President of the Royal Meteorological Society for 1934–35.[8]

Honours and awards

References
  1. Sutcliffe, R. C.; Best, A. C. (1977). "Ernest Gold. 24 July 1881 -- 30 January 1976". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 23: 114. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1977.0006. JSTOR 769611.
  2. "Ernest Gold, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.O., F.R.S. President of the Royal Meteorological Society 1934–1936". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 102 (434): 945–947. 1976. Bibcode:1976QJRMS.102..945.. doi:10.1002/qj.49710243425.
  3. Anon (2004). "Gold, Ernest (1881–1976), meteorologist". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31155.
  4. ‘GOLD, Ernest’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U154896 (subscription required)
  5. http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf
  6. "Gold, Ernest (GLT900E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  7. http://www.rmets.org/sites/default/files/hist08.pdf
  8. "Fellows Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  9. "The Observatory". 49. 1926: 53. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. "Winners of the IMO Prize". World Meteorological Organization. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
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