Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Crane Richmond was Assistant Director/Technical. He was born in Dalston in 1893. He began his career as an engineer for structural stress in dockyard construction. In 1915 he joined the RNAS and worked in airship construction. In the following years, he was heavily involved in airship research and development and was a lecturer at the Imperial College of Science. (one of his students was a young Harold Roxbee Cox who went on to work on the design of the R101). He joined the R101 team in 1924.
Tragically, lost his life in the loss of the R101 on 5th October 1930.