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Violet Baring Royal Aero Club Certificate 8932 (17 Dec 1929) |
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b. 1900 b. Violetta Mary Archer in Reading, "A niece of Lady George Dundas, of Newmarket, and also of the Marquess of Zetland." Married Richard Baring in Jan 1921 but 'divorced him'. Violet was killed in July 1931 when she and her 'old friend' Philip Noble (to whom she had just sold the aeroplane) crashed in G-EBYK while attempting a forced landing near Wokingham, Berks: "The woman pilot, who was well-known in Society, and her passenger, a director of Lloyds Bank, who was also an enthusiastic flyer, were killed instantly; both receiving terrible injuries." John Dennis Turner (q.v.), who said he was engaged to be married to Violet, identified the body and gave evidence at the inquest. Her house at 23 Earl's Court Square, London, was for sale 'at a low price' by the following January. |
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1929