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Title
Photograph of Lieutenant Humphrey Verdon Roe in South Africa
Reference
YA2010.85/4/14
Production date
1901 - 1901
Scope and Content
Photographic portrait of Lieutenant Humphrey Verdon Roe of the 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment, taken in South Africa
Level of description
ITEM
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.

Subject
Photography
Armed forces
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.