University of Western Australia Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Occupation(s)
businessman research chemist
Employer(s)
Brunner Mond & Co ICI Council of Industrial Design (1947-1960)
Design Centre
Known for
reforming road traffic signage, creator of the transport font
Notable work
Worboys Committee 1964 Traffic Signs Regulations
Title
Rhodes Scholar D.Phil. Sir
Awards
Knighthood
Sir Walter John Worboys (22 February 1900 – 17 March 1969), was an Australian-born British businessman and chemist. He is best known for widely reforming road traffic signage in the United Kingdom.
Sir Walter John Worboys (22 February 1900 – 17 March 1969), was an Australian-born British businessman and chemist. He is best known for widely reforming...
Worboys is an English surname, a variant of Warboys. Notable people with the surname include: Anne Eyre Worboys (1920–2007), New Zealand writer Gavin...
the Worboys Committee of 1963 that was largely responsible for the road signage system effected from 1964, which is still current. Until Worboys, the...
directional signs. — Worboys Committee, Traffic signs: report of the committee on traffic signs for all-purpose roads (1963) Most pre-Worboys signs consisted...
Great Britain. Report of the Traffic Signs Committee [Chairman, Sir WalterWorboys], 18 April 1963. "New traffic signs demonstrated on road at Birmingham...
On 20 September 1946, she married Walter Brindy Worboys, and had two daughters, Carolyn and Robin. Annette Worboys died in June 2007 in Leigh, Kent, England...
Joseph Underwood Roelf Vos Henry Waymouth Tony Wheeler Nicholas Whitlam WalterWorboys Charles William Wren Arthur Yates Edward Lowenstern Yencken William...
by taxi-driver John Worboys, who in 2009 was convicted of multiple sexual assaults on his passengers. She later recalled Worboys offering her champagne...
Racing driver Catherine West Member of Parliament for Hornsey and Wood Green since 2015 WalterWorboys Businessman Cate Blanchett Actress and film producer...
charge of the Anderson Committee, then formed a new committee under Sir WalterWorboys to review signage on all other British roads, in addition to motorways...
recipients are: 1954 Sir Colin Anderson 1955 Sir Charles Tennyson 1956 Sir WalterWorboys 1957 Sir Ernest Goodale 1958 John Gloag 1959 Frank A Mercer 1960 J....
Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Michael Worboys, Emeritus Professor in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine...
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Homei, A.; Worboys, M. (11 November 2013). Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States...
doi:10.1016/j.tvjl.2015.07.019. ISSN 1090-0233. PMID 26403955. Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange & Neil Pemberton, The invention of the modern dog:...
with Shirley Anne Field, and then alongside Peter Barkworth and Harriet Walter in The Price (1985) on Channel 4. Reid studied Politics and Philosophy at...
1093/ref:odnb/36954. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Worboys, Michael. "Beale, Lionel Smith". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
Sons, inc. ISBN 978-0-470-12906-7. Duckham, Matt; Goodchild, Michael F.; Worboys, Michael (2004-11-23). Foundations of Geographic Information Science. CRC...
John Lee – Head of Model Making John Rowe – Head of Digital Effects Andy Worboys – Head of Editing Alan Thorn – Head of Games Design and Development Chris...
1863b. Wrench 1913, p. 98. Fitzharris 2018, p. 159. Simmons 2002, p. 96. Worboys 2000, p. 79. DePaolo 2016, p. 17. Cartwright 1977, p. 144. Cameron 1949...
126" "Provenance: Sir Harry Hague (1881–1960)" at Bonhams.com Michael Worboys, 'Henderson, David Willis Wilson (1903–1968)', Oxford Dictionary of National...
3 to investigate women's allegations of rape against cab driver, John Worboys . Barton v Wright Hassall LLP [2018] UKSC 12 21 February Civil Procedure...
Weinfeld, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter 1947 – Mike Worboys, English mathematician and computer scientist 1949 – Alyson Bailes, English...
broadcaster Sue Wootton (born 1961), poet and fiction writer Anne Eyre Worboys (1920–2007), romance and suspense novelist Niel Wright (born 1933), poet...
Pearson Prize Mary Lee Woods, mathematician and computer programmer Mike Worboys, mathematician and computer scientist Paul Gilroy, sociologist and cultural...
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