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Undecimus Stratton : ウィキペディア英語版 | Undecimus Stratton
Undecimus Stratton (1868 - 12 July 1929) was the manager of Daimler's London depot and supplier of automobiles to British, Spanish and German royalty. Along with Ernest Instone, he took over the management of the depot under the name Stratton-Instone, which later became the automobile dealership Stratstone. ==Early life== Stratton was born to Undecimus and Margaret Stratton in 1868. His father, a solicitor, was named "Undecimus" after his own father and there is no evidence that any of them was an eleventh child. Stratton's close friends would call him Eugene, or "Gene" for short. A notable runner and rugby player, Stratton read for a law degree but did not continue into the profession. Instead, he bought land with money he had saved and built a brewery on the property. He married Lily Thompson, a society beauty, in February 1898 and, in his early thirties, retired to an estate to train his racehorses and trotting horses.〔Burgess-Wise, David, ''Cars for King and Court – Undecimus Stratton'', p. 56〕 Stratton was a pioneer motorist who bought his first car, a Daimler, in 1898. Fellow motorist and balloon enthusiast, The Honourable Sir Charles Rolls, was a close friend of Stratton's and offered him a partnership in a new motor sales venture. Stratton declined, and Rolls started C. S. Rolls & Co. with Claude Johnson. In 1905, Stratton, Rolls and Frank Hedges Butler set a balloon altitude record of .〔
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