British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator
The Hon. Mrs Victor Bruce
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bruce
Born
Mildred Mary Petre
(1895-11-10)10 November 1895[1]
Chelmsford, Essex, England[2]
Died
21 May 1990(1990-05-21) (aged 94)
Camden, London, England[1]
Occupation(s)
Motorist, speedboat racer, aviator, businesswoman
Known for
First woman to fly around the world (except oceans) solo
Spouse
Victor Austin Bruce
(m. 1926; div. 1941)
Children
1
Mildred Mary Petre (10 November 1895 – 21 May 1990) was a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later, successful businesswoman. Commonly referred to as Mrs Victor Bruce, she was also known in contemporary references as Mary Petre Bruce, Mildred Bruce, Mildred Mary Bruce and Mary Victor Bruce.
^ abGeneral Register Office. Index of deaths registered in May 1990 – Name: Bruce, Mildred Mary. Date of Birth: 10 November 1895. District: Camden. Vol. 14. p. 1570.
^General Register Office. Index of births registered in January, February and March 1896 – Name: Petre, Mildred Mary. District: Chelmsford. Vol. 4A. p. 509.
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Hafner AR.III gyroplane and the Fane F.1/40. On 25 September 1930, MrsVictorBruce took off in her Blackburn Bluebird IV (G-ABDS, named Bluebird) on a...
circumnavigated the globe solo, between August 1928 and November 1929. MrsVictorBruce completed the first solo partially aerial circumnavigation by a woman...
woman. The same year, inspired to learn to fly by Johnson's flight, MrsVictorBruce became the first person to fly from England to Japan, the first to...
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had only 40 hours' solo flying experience. He flew in concert with MrsVictorBruce from Jask, Iran, to Rangoon, Burma, part of her record-setting air-sea...
speed of 74.27 mph (119.53 km/h) for the aggregate 24 hours. Edge lent MrsVictorBruce an AC Six car (PF6465) which she drove in the 1927 Monte Carlo Rally...
the Gibraltar-Tangier route. In July 1932, it was sold to The Hon MrsVictorBruce and named City of Portsmouth. The undercarriage was temporarily removed...
built up by Air Dispatch Ltd at Croydon Airport, headed by The Hon MrsVictorBruce. Amongst her seven examples were also some ex-airline machines. They...
singer (born 1936) Lorna Johnstone, equestrian (born 1902) 21 May MrsVictorBruce (Mary Petre), racing driver (born 1895) Max Wall, comedian and actor...
secretary and other members included Nancy Debenham, Marjorie Cottle and MrsVictorBruce. Cordery married the racing driver and aviator John Stuart Hindmarsh...
Stanley Baldwin MP PM; Louis Bleriot; Sir Sefton Brancker; The Hon MrsVictorBruce; Barbara Cartland; Sidney Cotton; Florence Desmond; Amelia Earhart;...
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