HAWKER, Muriel H. G. Hawker Airman His Life and Work. 1922 1st Edition SIGNED
Hawker Airman His Life and Work. Inscribed and signed by author.
With A Foreword By Lt. Inscribed and signed by author. Inscriber to "Bert" from Muriel Hawker, the wife of H.
"Bert" may possibly refer to Bert Hinckler another pioneering Australian aviator who went to work at Sopwith in 1913 and was a great friend of Hawker [Evening New Sydney 1928]. Book: Fair / DJ: No DJ. Muriel Hawker, [Bert Hinckler] and H. POSTCARD: Harry Hawker standing next to Sopwith. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine.Size: 22 cm by 15 cm. Heavy wear to corners and edges.
5 cm tear to upper rear spine edge. Front spine crackd along its full length but held in place by small sections of attached cloth. Rubbed cloth with some minor marks.
Tightly bound with toned intaxct endpapers. Prev owners name to ffep, see provenance below. Spotted text block edges with some spotting seeping to page margins.
Muriel Alice Hawker (nee Peaty c1895 - 1983) was the wife of Australian pioneering aviator Harry Hawker George. Muriel was born c1895 based to Frederick Augustus Peaty, the Managing Director of a pianoforte manufacturing company and Alice Ann. She married Harry George Hawker, a 28 year old bachelor and aeroplane pilot on 14 Nov 1917 at St Peters Church in the Parish of Ealing. After the early death of her husband in 1921, she married David Bruce Stewart Bruce-Jones, a medical practitioner and subsequently Dr Brian Wilson Barnett Gordon. Muriel Alice Gordon died on 30 April 1983 at Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England aged 87. Herbert John Louis Hinkler (1892 - 1933), better known as Bert Hinkler, was a pioneer Australian aviator (dubbed "Australian Lone Eagle") and inventor. He designed and built early aircraft before being the first person to fly solo from England to Australia, completed on 22 February 1928, and the first person to fly solo across the Southern Atlantic Ocean. He married in 1932 at the age of 39, and died less than a year later after crashing into remote countryside near Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy during a solo flight record attempt. Hinkler was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, the son of John William Hinkler, a Prussian-born stockman, and his wife Frances Atkins (née Bonney) Hinkler. After gaining an understanding on the principles of flight, he constructed two gliders. In 1912 he launched one of his first home-made gliders on Mon Repos Beach and flew 10 metres (33 ft) above the sand dunes. He later met Arthur Burr Stone at a travelling show in Bundaberg and again at the Brisbane Exhibition where Hinkler worked with Stone to solve a problem with the "Blériot", the world's first monoplane. In 1913, Hinkler went to England where he worked for the Sopwith Aviation Company (co-owned by Harry Hawker with whom he became good friends), with this being the beginning of his career in aviation. Hayward, may refer to Bert Hayward of the Experimental Hangar at Hawker.