Title
Correspondence relating to Humphrey Verdon Roe's patents
Reference
YA2010.85/5/15
Production date
1945 - 1962
Creator
Scope and Content
16 items including correspondence and copy accounts and minutes of Gerrard & Co.
Extent
16 items
Level of description
FILE
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- Roe, Humphrey VerdonBiographyBiography
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-Roe, Harry VerdonBiographyBiography
Philosopher and Chair of the British Humanist Association
- Gerrard & Co LtdBiographyBiography
Manufacturers of cycle repair patches, known to have been active 1918-1927.
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.
