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| Picture No | 11988752 |
| Date | 1911 |
| Description | Hilda Hewlett |
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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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| Source | Photograph in 'The Tatler', 30 August 1911, page 106 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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