Sopwith
THOMAS OCTAVE MUR- DOCH, a British aviator. Born 1888; educated at Cottesmore, and the Seafield Engineering College. In 1910 he won the de Forest prize of $20,000 for the longest flight from England in a British machine by a flight from Eastchurch to Beaumont, Belgium, a distance of 176 miles, in a Howard-Wright biplane. In 1912 he established the Sopwith Aviation Co., Ltd., at Kingston-on-Thames, where aeroplanes and seaplanes are designed and built. He assisted in the turning out of many British aeroplanes during the World War.