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    Lettice Curtis : Her Autobiography - Hardcover

    Lettice Curtis: Her Autobiography

    Curtis, Lettice

    Published by Red Kite, 2004

    ISBN 10: 0954620119 / ISBN 13: 9780954620110

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    Lettice Curtis

    English female aviator; Air Transport Auxiliary pilot

    Eleanor Lettice Curtis (1 February 1915 – 21 July 2014) was an English aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot, and sportswoman.

    Origins

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    Curtis was born on 1 February 1915 at Denbury in Devon, a daughter of Eleanor Francis (née Master) and Walter Septimus Curtis (born 1871) of Denbury House. Her father was lord of the manor of Denbury, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn[2] and a grandson of Matthew Curtis (1807–1887) of Thornfield in the parish of Heaton Mersey, Lancashire, a leading manufacturer of cotton-spinning machinery in Britain and thrice Mayor of Manchester.[2] She had one brother and five sisters.[2]

    Early life

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    Curtis was educated at Benenden School and St Hilda's College, Oxford where, in addition to studying Mathematics, she was Captain of the University Women's Lawn Tennis and Fencing teams.[3] She also played Lacrosse for the University.

    She learned to fly in 1937 at the Yapton Flying Club, Ford, West Sussex, earning a B–class licence.[4]

    Air Transport Auxiliary

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    In early July 1940 Curtis became one of the first women pilots to join the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), remaining with the ATA unt

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