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The collection was founded in 1928 by aviator Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth.While flying a Fairey Battle at night on 2 August 1940, Shuttleworth fatally crashed. His mother, in 1944, formed the Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust "for the teaching of the science and practice of aviation and of afforestation and agriculture."
Old Warden is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England, about 6.5 miles (10 km) south-east of the county town of Bedford. The 2011 census shows its population as 328. [1] The Shuttleworth Collection of historic airplanes and motor vehicles is at Old Warden Aerodrome.
Old Warden Aerodrome (ICAO: EGTH) is located 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) east southeast of Bedford, in Bedfordshire, England. The privately owned aerodrome serves The Shuttleworth Collection , which contains a large working collection of vintage aircraft, cars, motor cycles and agricultural vehicles and equipment.
Shuttleworth was born at the Mansion House, Old Warden Park, now part of Shuttleworth College. Richard Shuttleworth was born at Old Warden Park in 1909; his father Frank Shuttleworth died when Richard was just four years old, and his mother Dorothy Shuttleworth brought him up to be ready to take over his inheritance, which he did in 1932 when he was 23.
Robert Henley-Ongley's memorial in St Leonard's church at Old Warden Robert Henley-Ongley is buried in the Ongley Mausoleum in the churchyard of St Leonard's church. Robert Henley-Ongley, 1st Baron Ongley (c. 1721 – 23 October 1785), was a British politician.
The Old Warden estate was bought in the late 17th century by London merchant Sir Samuel Ongley. It passed down in the Ongley family until 1872, when Robert Henley-Ongley, 3rd Baron Ongley, in financial difficulties, sold it to Joseph Shuttleworth of the Lincoln engineering firm of Clayton & Shuttleworth. It thereafter became better known as the ...
Feb. 15—Investigators believe they have solved the Great Depression-era cold case of an Idaho game warden who vanished in the mountains south of Mullan. Though the body of Ellsworth Arthur Teed ...
The Richard Shuttleworth Memorial Chapel. In 2008, after changes in the status of the Shuttleworth Chapel in Old Warden Park, St Leonard's church received a number of items from the chapel, including two flags, two lances with regimental pennants, linen and lace altar cloths, a wooden cross and candlesticks.