Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks

Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks
Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks
Born 6 November 1887(1887-11-06)
Evercreech, Somerset, England
Died 1 May 1971(1971-05-01) (aged 83)
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Nationality United Kingdom
Known for Pioneer women aviator

Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks (1887–1971) was only the second British women to gain a Royal Aero Club aviator's licence in 1911.[1]

Early life

Cheridah was born Cheridah Annie Ernst on the 6 November 1887 in Evercreech, Somerset, England, the daughter of Henry Ernst, a magistrate, and his wife Annie (née Waring). In the 1901 Census Cheridah was living at the Hotel Metropole on Northumberland Avenue, Strand, London with her sister Bessie and her widowed mother.[2]

She married in London in 1909 to David de Beauvoir Stocks. On the 7 November 1911 she became only the second woman to gain a Royal Aero Club aviators certificate passing her test using a Farman biplane at Hendon.[1] Following a crash during an airshow at Hendon in 1913 she was unconscious for six weeks and her recovery was closely followed by the newspapers of the day. Stocks never flew again.[1]

Her husband David a Commander in the Royal Navy died on 31 January 1918 when the submarine HMS K4 was lost in an accident.[1]

Stocks went on to study at Oxford and gained a BSc in Social Anthropology, she died on 1 May 1971 in Northampton aged 83.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "MRS STOCKS A pioneer British pilot" (Obituaries). The Times (London). Friday, 7 May 1971. Issue 58166, col G, p. 18.
  2. ^ 1901 Census of Strand, RG13/242, Folio 42, Page 13, Cheridah Annie Ernst, aged 13, Hotel Metropole, Northumberland Avenue, St Martin In The Fields, London

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