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Charles Clement Walker CBE FRAeS (25 August 1877 – 30 September 1968) was a British engineer and aerodynamicist, who became a founding director and chief engineer at de Havilland. He was "one of the great men of aviation's formative decades".
Personal life
He was educated at Highgate School from 1887 to 1892 and went on to University College, London, where he was in 1938 elected a Fellow.
He married Eileen Hood (1892 – 20 May 1970) on 2 September 1916 at St Michael's Church in Highgate, Middlesex.
Their only son David was killed flying on a training aircraft with the 2FTS of the RAF, on 2 October 1941, aged 21.
He lived at his house Foresters in Middlesex. He died aged 91 at home.
His name is commemorated in Walker Grove, a street in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
See also
References
- ^ Boreham, Jack. Highgate School Register 1838-1938 (4th ed.). p. 135.
- ^ Clarkson, R. M. (1969). "Charles Clement Walker, CBE, Honorary Fellow 1877-1968". The Aeronautical Journal. 73 (700): xxxvii–xxxviii. doi:10.1017/S0001924000052921. S2CID 113561895. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- Surrey Mirror Tuesday 5 September 1916, page 2
- Times obituary Tuesday 1 October 1968, page 12
- 1941 crash of his son
- Coventry Evening Telegraph Tuesday 1 October 1968, page 19
- "Hatfield Airfield – Roads to Remember". Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- 1877 births
- 1968 deaths
- Aerodynamicists
- Academics of University College London
- Alumni of University College London
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- De Havilland
- De Havilland Comet
- De Havilland Mosquito
- English civil engineers
- People educated at Highgate School
- Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal winners