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(1890–1967), British air force officer, born in Glenguin, Scotland, and educated at the University of Cambridge. He served as an army officer during World War I until 1916, when he transferred to the air force. Tedder became commander in chief of the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Far East in 1936 and in the Middle East in 1941, during World War II. Subsequently, as Allied air commander in the Mediterranean region, he helped expel the German forces from northern Africa. In 1944 he became deputy commander in chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force under the American general Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he took a leading part in planning the Allied landings on the European continent. In 1946 he was made chief of the British air staff and was created a baron. Tedder was appointed chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1950. He was named marshal of the RAF in 1961. His works include Air Power in War (1947) and the memoir Without Prejudice (1966).
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