Neville Alexander Thomas Nix Feary (1884-1957)
1884 Born in St Ives, Huntingdon
1906 Became a student member of the Inst of Civil Engineers, of Forest Hill, London SW, later of Lincoln.[1]
1906 An engineer, when he sailed from Southampton to Buenos Aires.
1906 Address: F C Central de Cordoba, 686 Calle Lavalle, Buenos Aires[2]
1908 Married in Ulverston to Lucy Louise Dawe.
1909 Aeronautical instructor to the Regent-street Polytechnic Institute, London.[3]
See Grose and Feary for description of the aeroplane he built with Alfred Grose
1911 Neville Alex Thomas Nix Feary 26, progress clerk, lived in Brentford, with Lucy Louise Feary 30, Lucy Eileen Feary 1, Neville Mendham Feary 6 months[4]
1915 Living in Peterbrough, he gained his first patent, with Frederick Sage and Co, on method of fixing springs
WWI Several further patents with Sage on various inventions including aircraft instruments and coverings for aircraft
Post-WWI he gained further patents on aircraft construction and finally on tennis racquets
1939 A chaser; aircraft trained engineer; lived in Twickenham with William G Feary[5]
1957 Died in Westminster Hospital[6]