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Turner, Charles C.Biography Biography
Aviator and author, active c1911
Aeronautics Magazine Biography Biography
A British weekly journal dedicated to the technique and industry of aeronautics founded in 1907 and owned by Benn Brothers Ltd

Scope and Content
Papers relating to a dinner given by Aeronautics Magazine for the first 100 British Aviators and Pioneers of British Aviation. Includes invitation, menu, guest list and letters from N.S. Percival to Dr Marie Stopes (4 February 1920) and from Major Charles C. Turner to H.V. Roe (17 March and 8 June 1920).
Extent
7 items
Level of description
FILE
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum

Associated people and organisations

Roe, Humphrey Verdon Biography Biography
Humphrey Verdon-Roe was an English businessman and philanthropist who served as a lieutenant during both world wars. He was born in 1878 in Manchester. Along with his brother, Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, he founded the A. V. Roe & Co Ltd company in 1910 (also known as Avro), which capitalised on A.V. Roe’s aeronautical inventions and experiments and went on to be of paramount importance to the training of air force officers. In 1918, Humphrey Verdon-Roe married Dr. Marie C. Stopes and together, they opened the first birth control clinic in Britain in London in 1921, the Mothers’ Clinic. Humphrey Verdon-Roe died in 1949.
Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael Biography Biography
Botanist and birth control pioneer
Turner, Charles C.Biography Biography
Aviator and author, active c1911
Aeronautics Magazine Biography Biography
A British weekly journal dedicated to the technique and industry of aeronautics founded in 1907 and owned by Benn Brothers Ltd

Subject
Civil aviation
Aeronautics
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied, provided that the copying process used does not damage the item or is not detrimental to its preservation. Copies will be supplied in accordance with the Science and Industry Museum's terms and conditions for the supply and reproduction of copies, and the provisions of any relevant copyright legislation.