Michal Giedroyc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michal Giedroyc

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1929

Place of Birth: Labzova, Belarus

Date of Death: 29-Dec-2017

Profession: historian, medievalist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.