David Yeo Bartholomew Tanqueray (1896–1944) was the youngest of three children of Andrew Hawkins Tanqueray and Alice Lucy Cory, who married in London in 1887 [note 1].
David attended officer training at Sandhurst, and served in the First World War in the 9th Battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. In 1918 he joined the staff of the North Russian Expeditionary Force as an acting captain, and attained the rank of captain when demobilised in 1919. He became an engineer, joining Aublet Harry & Co, manufacturers of laundry machinery where his father was a director and later chairman. When the company was taken over by Baker Perkins Ltd in 1924, David was described as a sales manager; in 1938 he was listed as the inventor on patents related to laundry machinery and was made a director of Baker Perkins in August 1935. At the start of the Second World War he was seconded to the Ministry of Supply as Deputy Director of Weapons Production [note 2].
David married Marjorie Edith Bryant née Macdonald in London in 1938. They lived in Peterborough.
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Notes
1. According to information received from Venetia Tanqueray, David’s three forenames were from his godparents David William Tanqueray, John Shapland Yeo and Helen Theresa Bartholomew. He did not have a Yeo line of descent.
2. The information on David’s war service and his work as an engineer has kindly been supplied by his son David A. Tanqueray.