#20
Most Popular
Boost
Jan 25, 1929 Labzova, Belarus Died on 29 Dec 2017 (aged 88) Aquarius
Michal Giedroyc - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
Michal Giedroyc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com
About Michal Giedroyc
- Prince Michal Jan Henryk Giedroyc (25 January 1929 – 29 December 2017) was a Polish-Lithuanian aristocrat who later became a naturalised British citizen and aircraft designer. Giedroyc was born in Poland but in 1940 he was deported to a Siberian gulag with most of his family by the Soviet NKVD after the Soviet invasion of Poland.
- They "escaped" to Iran in 1942 and travelled to Britain in 1947.
- He studied at the University of London and then worked designing aircraft at Vickers Aerospace.
- He later moved into economic consultancy.
- He became an expert in the history of medieval Lithuania.
- His memoirs were published in 2010 as Crater's Edge.
