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Cheridah Annie de Beauvoir Stocks

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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Cheridah Annie de Beauvoir
| name = Stocks
| honorific_prefix = Mrs
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Stocks,_Cheridah_Annie_de_Beauvoir.jpg
| birth_date = 1887
| death_date = 1971
| address = Ladies Carlton Club, 8 Chesterfield Gardens, W1
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1924.01.08
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1931 last listed
| clubs = Ladies Carlton Club<br />Royal Aero Club
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
1923.12.11 proposed by B.M. Blackwood, seconded by D. Garrod<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks (1887–1971) was only the second British women to gain a Royal Aero Club aviator's licence in 1911.[1]<br />Cheridah was born Cheridah Annie Ernst on 6 November 1887 in Evercreech, Somerset, England, the daughter of Henry Ernst, a magistrate, and his wife Annie (née Waring). In the 1901 Census Cheridah was living at the Hotel Metropole on Northumberland Avenue, Strand, London with her sister Bessie and her widowed mother.[2]<br /><br />She married in London in 1909 to David de Beauvoir Stocks. On 7 November 1911 she became only the second woman to gain a Royal Aero Club aviators certificate passing her test using a Farman biplane at Hendon.[1] Following a crash during an airshow at Hendon in 1913 she was unconscious for six weeks and her recovery was closely followed by the newspapers of the day. Stocks never flew again.[1]<br /><br />Her husband David a Commander in the Royal Navy died on 31 January 1918 when the submarine HMS K4 was lost in an accident.[1]<br /><br />Stocks went on to study at Oxford and gained a BSc in Social Anthropology, she died on 1 May 1971 in Northampton aged 83.[1]
== Publications ==
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