Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks
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Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks (1887–1971) was only the second British
women to gain a Royal Aero Club
aviator's licence in 1911.
, the daughter of Henry Ernst, a magistrate, and his wife Annie (née Waring). In the 1901 Census Cheridah was living at the Hotel Metropole on Northumberland Avenue, Strand, London with her sister Bessie and her widowed mother.
She married in London in 1909 to David de Beauvoir Stocks. On the 7 November 1911 she became only the second woman to gain a Royal Aero Club
aviators certificate passing her test using a Farman biplane at Hendon. Following a crash during an airshow at Hendon in 1913 she was unconscious for six weeks and her recovery was closely followed by the newspapers of the day. Stocks never flew again.
Her husband David a Commander in the Royal Navy died on 31 January 1918 when the submarine HMS K4
was lost in an accident.
Stocks went on to study at Oxford and gained a BSc
in Social Anthropology, she died on 1 May 1971 in Northampton aged 83.
United Kingdom
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women to gain a Royal Aero Club
Royal Aero Club
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aviator's licence in 1911.
Early life
Cheridah was born Cheridah Annie Ernst on the 6 November 1887 in Evercreech, Somerset, EnglandEngland
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, the daughter of Henry Ernst, a magistrate, and his wife Annie (née Waring). In the 1901 Census Cheridah was living at the Hotel Metropole on Northumberland Avenue, Strand, London with her sister Bessie and her widowed mother.
She married in London in 1909 to David de Beauvoir Stocks. On the 7 November 1911 she became only the second woman to gain a Royal Aero Club
Royal Aero Club
The Royal Aero Club is the national co-ordinating body for Air Sport in the United Kingdom.The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls , partly inspired by the Aero Club of France...
aviators certificate passing her test using a Farman biplane at Hendon. Following a crash during an airshow at Hendon in 1913 she was unconscious for six weeks and her recovery was closely followed by the newspapers of the day. Stocks never flew again.
Her husband David a Commander in the Royal Navy died on 31 January 1918 when the submarine HMS K4
HMS K4
HMS K4 was a British K class submarine built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 28 June 1915 and commissioned on 1 January 1917, one year before the end of World War I.- Accident 17 November 1917 :...
was lost in an accident.
Stocks went on to study at Oxford and gained a BSc
BSC
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in Social Anthropology, she died on 1 May 1971 in Northampton aged 83.