John Shepherd-Barron who died in May 2010 is credited with being the inventor of what, which was first used in 1967 by Reg Varney?
John Shepherd-Barron system was patented as GB1197183 and US3905461 and was cited by subsequent patents as "prior art device". Goodfellow's PIN system resembled modern ATMs more than Shepherd-Barron's machine. However, Shepherd-Barron's machine was the first to be installed, if only for a few days. His son, Nicholas Shepherd-Barron FRS, is professor of algebraic geometry at the King's College London. John died on 15 May 2010 after a brief illness at the age of 84 in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, Scotland. John Shepherd-Barron John Adrian Shepherd-Barron, OBE (23 June 1925 – 15 May 2010) was a British inventor, who led the team that installed
John Shepherd-Barron first "Barclaycash" machines were limited to a maximum of £10, "quite enough for a wild weekend" according to Shepherd-Barron. Shepherd-Barron received the O.B.E. in the 2005 New Year's Honours list for services to banking as "inventor of the automatic cash dispenser". Various rival cash dispenser systems quickly began to emerge. Another Scottish inventor, James Goodfellow, who was working at Smiths Industries, was commissioned by Chubb Locks to work on a new cash machine. Together with Anthony Davies, he developed a new system whereby the user's PIN could be stored on a reusable bank card, rather than on single-use cheques. The