GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE (1879— ), English aviator and engineer, was born on Aug. 1879. He was educated at Bedford and studied engineering. He owned one of the first petrol-driven motor cars in England, and worked at a motor engineering business in London until he became interested in aeronautics in 1909. In that year he gained an aviator's certifi cate of proficiency, being the first Englishman to do so, and in the following year he entered for many flying races both in Europe and in America, where he won the Gordon Bennett Cup. He founded the first British flying school at Pau, in France, in 1909, and in the following year joined a company to run the Hendon aerodrome of London. At the outbreak of war in 1914 he resigned from his position of flight commander, and superin tended the construction of Government aeroplanes. He wrote many treatises on aircraft, dealing with its history, its technical development, and its use in warfare. Among the most important are: The Aeroplane; Past, Present and Future (191 I) ; The Aero plane in War (1912) ; Our First Airways, their Organization, Equipment and Finance (1918).