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Humphrey Verdon Roe
Born(1878-04-18)18 April 1878
Manchester, England
Died27 July 1949(1949-07-27) (aged 71)
AllegianceHumphrey Verdon Roe United Kingdom
UnitManchester Regiment
Battles/warsBoer War
World War I (RFC)
World War II (RAFVR)
Spouse(s)
Marie Stopes
(m. 1918; div. 1935)
ChildrenHarry Stopes-Roe
RelationsAlliot Verdon Roe (brother)
Other workBusinessman, Philanthropist, aircraft manufacturer

Humphrey Verdon Roe (18 April 1878 – 27 July 1949) was a British businessman, a philanthropist, aircraft manufacturer and the usually unacknowledged co-founder of Britain's first and most successful birth control clinic along with Marie Stopes, who became his wife. He was the father of the British philosopher Harry Stopes-Roe.

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Alliott Verdon Roe

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faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes...

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History of birth control

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the time. In 1921, after years of planning, Stopes and her husband Humphrey Verdon Roe opened the Mothers' Clinic in Holloway, North London. The clinic...

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MSI Reproductive Choices

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Leatherhead

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family. In 1919, the estate was bought by the aircraft manufacturer, Humphrey Verdon Roe, whose wife, Marie Stopes, would live at Norbury Park for 20 years...

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Patricroft

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company, one of the world's first aircraft manufacturers, in 1910. Humphrey Verdon Roe, his brother, was co-founder of Avro and also co-founder of the first...

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Roe I Triplane

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his brother, Dr Spencer Verdon Roe, in Putney in South-West London. It was then transported to the new flying ground that Roe had found on Walthamstow...

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Grahame Christie

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Lancashire-built Avro 504 biplane, piloted by F. P. Raynham with Humphrey Verdon Roe as passenger. Christie then purchased one of the first production...

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Harold Blackburn

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Lancashire-built Avro 504 biplane, piloted by F. P. Raynham with Humphrey Verdon Roe as passenger. The race began evenly but in deteriorating conditions...

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Howard Pixton

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aviation asking for a job. He received a reply from Humphrey Verdon (H.V.) Roe from ‘Avroplanes’, A.V. Roe, of Brownsfield Mill, Ancoats, Manchester, where...

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film

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Symansky In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? Vivienne Verdon-Roe and Eric Thiermann Sewing Woman Arthur Dong Spaces: The Architecture of...

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2001 1000km of Estoril

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Timeline of Manchester history

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the city boundaries. 1910 1 January: Eccles-born Alliott Verdon Roe and his brother Humphrey establish the Avro aircraft factory at Brownsfield Mill in...

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Science and technology in Manchester

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Edward Samson Alcock and Elsie Moseley. In 1910, Eccles-born Alliott Verdon Roe founded Avro on at Brownsfield Mill on Great Ancoats Street in Manchester...

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2000 British GT Championship

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1946 New Year Honours

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Chairman, Essex County Council. For services to Civil Defence. William George Verdon Smith, CBE, Chairman, Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd. Thomas George Spencer,...

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1917 New Year Honours

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Sergeant Major. F. W. Uden, Canadian Infantry Company Sergeant Major L. L. Verdon, Canadian Infantry Quartermaster Sergeant C. A. Walker, Canadian Infantry...

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1961 New Year Honours

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