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Brigadier Stephen John Tetlow MBE (born June 1954) is an engineer and former senior British Army officer.
Tetlow was born in Basford, Nottinghamshire, and was educated at Burton Joyce Primary School and Carlton le Willows Grammar School, where he aspired to drive trains.
Stephen Tetlow had been promoted to Major by 1991, when he had received his MBE. He was then promoted to Colonel by 2011, when he dismissed claims put forward by author Tim Blackmore that emerging technology would revolutionize battlespace in the near future - commenting that "conflict is, and will remain, essentially a human activity". Later promoted to Brigadier, he was gazetted to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He was Director of the Corps from 2002 to 2005.
After military service, Tetlow became Chief Executive of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He currently resides in the Blackdown Hills, Devon in a house featured on Grand Designs. He has since led an expedition to South Georgia in order to retrace the steps of Ernest Shackleton.