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Oliver Simmonds
Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds, FRAeS, (1897 – 1985) was a British aviation pioneer, aircraft engineer and Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Duddeston from 1931 to 1945.
==Early life ==
Simmonds was born on 22 November 1897 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, the elder son of the Rev Frederick Simmonds, a lawyer by training and a Congregational Minister by avocation. Simmonds was educated at Taunton in Somerset, gaining an Exhibition in History to Magdalene College Cambridge. In early 1916, with the required parental approval, he volunteered to join the Royal Flying Corps as a pilot. He was trained at Weybridge, Surrey, home of Brooklands the famous racing car track. He received his wings and in March 1916 and joined 25 Squadron in France. He piloted a FE 2 B, a light bomber and observation aircraft. Arthur Tedder, later an Air Marshall and Deputy Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces in Northern Europe in 1944/45, was also a member of 25 Squadron at that time. He was flying a single seat scout plane. Simmonds went up to Cambridge in 1919. He switched from reading History to Engineering, earning his degree in 1922. While at Cambridge he joined the Cambridge University Aeronautical Society, becoming its Honorary Secretary. (Hon. Sec. of the Royal Aircraft Establishmentuncertain of this fact. Aero Club of South Farnborough, Hampshire.
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