Sir Thomas Sopwith - Green Street, London, UK
N 51° 30.747 W 000° 09.362
30U E 697335 N 5710648
This blue plaque, to Sir Thomas Sopwith, is on a house on the south side of Green Street.
Waymark Code: WMEK8J
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/08/2012
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The blue plaque, that is in good condition,
reads:
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English Heritage
Sir
Thomas
Sopwith
1888 - 1989
Aviator and aircraft
manufacturer
lived here
1934 - 1940
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The Britannica website (visit
link) tells us:
"Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, (born
Jan. 18, 1888, London, Eng.—died Jan. 27, 1989, Compton Manor, Kings Somborne,
near Winchester, Hampshire), British aircraft designer whose firm was famous for
such World War I British military aircraft as the Sopwith Camel and Triplane.
Sopwith taught himself to fly in 1910 and in that year won the de Forest prize
for the longest flight to the European continent. Two years later he founded
Sopwith Aviation Company, Ltd., and won the first aerial derby flying a Blériot
monoplane."