George Arthur Barnes
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George Arthur Barnes was an English
racing motorcyclist and a pioneer aviator
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, London on 19 Jul 1883
Schooled at North House School Crawley
Gained 1 mile tandem cycle record at Crystal Palace 8 October 1901
Gained one hour and 50 miles records at Crystal Palace 19 June 1902
to gain the Royal Aero Club
's Aviator's Certificate No. 16, although he was already employed by the Humber company as a pilot. In the 1911 Census of Lewisham he described himself as an aviator living at the Crown and Anchor in Lewisham with his widowed mother.
He died of Pneumonia on 1 February 1919 at Paddington, London.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
racing motorcyclist and a pioneer aviator
Aviator
An aviator is a person who flies an aircraft. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887, as a variation of 'aviation', from the Latin avis , coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation Aérienne...
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Early life
Barnes was born at HoxtonHoxton
Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The area of Hoxton is bordered by Regent's Canal on the north side, Wharf Road and City Road on the west, Old Street on the south, and Kingsland Road on the east.Hoxton is also a...
, London on 19 Jul 1883
Schooled at North House School Crawley
Cycling
First pedal cycle race in Southend over Easter weekend April 1901Gained 1 mile tandem cycle record at Crystal Palace 8 October 1901
Gained one hour and 50 miles records at Crystal Palace 19 June 1902
Motorcyles
Between 1904 and 1905 in partnership with George Wilton he manufactured and sold motorcycles trading as George A. Barnes & Co.; the partnership was dissolved on 17 August 1905.Aviator
On 21 Jun 1910 Barnes flew a Humber monoplane at BrooklandsBrooklands
Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England. It opened in 1907, and was the world's first purpose-built motorsport venue, as well as one of Britain's first airfields...
to gain the Royal Aero Club
Royal Aero Club
The Royal Aero Club is the national co-ordinating body for Air Sport in the United Kingdom.The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls , partly inspired by the Aero Club of France...
's Aviator's Certificate No. 16, although he was already employed by the Humber company as a pilot. In the 1911 Census of Lewisham he described himself as an aviator living at the Crown and Anchor in Lewisham with his widowed mother.
He died of Pneumonia on 1 February 1919 at Paddington, London.