Grahame-White
CLAUDE, an English aviator and designer of aeroplanes, born in 1879. He was educated at the Bedford Grammar School and at Crondall House College. After some experience in the manufacture of motors, he organized an aviation school at Pau, France. In 1910 he made several notable flights with a Farman biplane, and in the same year he made a tour of America. He won the Gordon Bennett Trophy. On his return to England he formed the Grahame-White Aviation Company. He wrote "The Story of the Aeroplane"; "Air Power"; "The Airplane in War," "Aviation" and several boys' books dealing with aviation. He was also a frequent contributor to magazines on the same subject.