Hilda Hewlett
Hilda Beatrice Hewlett (1864 - 1943), early aviator and aviation entrepreneur. The wife of Maurice Hewlett an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. Hewlett was first British woman to earn a pilot's certificate of the Royal Aero Club. She founded and ran two related businesses: the first flying school in the United Kingdom, and a successful aircraft manufacturing business which produced more than 800 aeroplanes and employed up to 700 people
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11988752
Media ID
46685172
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3711px x 5481px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Tatler', 30 August 1911, page 106
Date
1911
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