Stanley R. Mullard

Stanley Mullard was born in Bermondsey, London in 1883, the son of Robert Mullard and his wife Ann, née Ludford. He joined the Mackey Electric Lamp Company Ltd in 1899, and became a director of the company in 1906.

Mullard joined the IEE as a student member in 1903, became a full member in 1910, and a fellow of the IEE in 1928.

In 1909, following the bankruptcy of the Mackey company, Mullard went to work first for a lamp company in Paris, and then joined the Ediswan company in Ponders End, north London, where in 1913 he was put in charge of the lamp laboratory.

During World War I, Mullard was commissioned as a captain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served at HMS Vernon as a research engineer, helping to develop high power valves made from silica rather than glass.