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Humphrey Verdon Roe

Birth
Patricroft, Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England
Death
25 Jul 1949 (aged 71)
Croydon, London Borough of Croydon, Greater London, England
Burial
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British businessman, philanthropist, aircraft manufacturer and the usually unacknowledged co-founder of Britain's first and most successful birth control clinic along with Marie Stopes, who he married in 1918. He was the brother of Alliot Verdon Roe and the father of the British philosopher Harry Stopes-Roe.
British businessman, philanthropist, aircraft manufacturer and the usually unacknowledged co-founder of Britain's first and most successful birth control clinic along with Marie Stopes, who he married in 1918. He was the brother of Alliot Verdon Roe and the father of the British philosopher Harry Stopes-Roe.


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