Tim Heywood, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetTim Heywood
British Army officer
Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1914
Date of Death: 15-Jun-2006
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Tim Heywood
- Geoffrey Beresford Heywood MBE DL (July 12, 1914 – June 15, 2006), known as Tim Heywood, was a British Army officer and bureaucrat.
- He served as the chief signals officer of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG).
- Later, he was president of the Country Landowners' Association (CLA) and founder president of the European Landowners' Association. Heywood was born in Newcastle.
- His father was a stockbroker.
- He was educated at Eton, where he built radios in his spare time.
- He became an accountant, and was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals (Middlesex Yeomanry) in 1939.
- His regiment was sent to Palestine with the 1st Cavalry Division in 1940.
- He volunteered to join the Long Range Desert Group and was interviewed by Major Ralph Bagnold and Captain Bill Shaw in Cairo.
- He joined the LRDG and became its chief signals officer in August 1941, in charge of its special radio equipment, its codes, and the communications group at the Group's headquarters.
- Heywood was demobilised as a Major, and awarded the MBE.
- He attended the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, and became a farmer, and became active in landowners' representative associations. He served as a governor, chairman of the governors (1980-1985), and vice-president of the Royal Agricultural College.
- During his time as president, the College was approved to award academic degrees, and admitted the first women.
- He was awarded the College's Bledisloe Gold Medal in 1989 for services to agriculture.
- He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, district commissioner of the Boy Scouts, and a general commissioner of income tax He married twice, first in 1946 (later divorced) and again in 1977.
- He was survived by his second wife, and a son and two daughters from his first marriage.
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