High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, FRAeS (26 April 1877 – 4 January 1958) was a pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer, and founder in 1910 of the Avro company. He was the first Englishman to make a powered flight (in 1908 at Brooklands) and the first Englishman to fly an all-British machine a year later, on Walthamstow Marshes. Roe was born in Patricroft, Eccles, now in the City of Salford. The son of a doctor, he left home when he was 14 to go to Canada where he had been offered training as a surveyor. When he arrived in British Columbia he discovered that a silver slump meant there was little demand for surveyors and he spent a year working odd jobs.

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