Andrew Figgures

Lieutenant General Andrew Collingwood Figgures CB CBE FREng (born 13 November 1950) is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.

Military career Educated at Loughborough Grammar School, Welbeck College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Figgures was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1970.

In 1995 he was appointed Commander of Equipment Support at HQ Land Command from where he was deployed to Bosnia for which he was awarded the CBE. Then in 2006 he became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Equipment Capability). He retired in October 2009.

In March 2010 he became Chief executive of the British Transport Police Authority. In 2012 a new post of Master General REME was created with Figgures as the first incumbent.