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1898 Taught [[Montague Grahame-White]] to drive a car.<ref>Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 30 April 1910</ref>
1898 Taught [[Montague Grahame-White]] to drive a car.<ref>Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 30 April 1910</ref>
1901 Living at 1 Plynhmmon Road, Hastings: [[Benjamin Burbidge]] (age 28 born Northamptonshire), a Motor Car Fitter. With his wife Amelia Burbidge (age 27 born Yorkshire) and children Frederick Burbidge (age 7 Months born Hastings) and Amelia Burbidge (age 2 born Northampton).<ref>1901 Census</ref>


Worked for [[Grose]]
Worked for [[Grose]]

Revision as of 11:50, 18 January 2013

Possibly held the first ever motor licence in the UK

1898 Taught Montague Grahame-White to drive a car.[1]

1901 Living at 1 Plynhmmon Road, Hastings: Benjamin Burbidge (age 28 born Northamptonshire), a Motor Car Fitter. With his wife Amelia Burbidge (age 27 born Yorkshire) and children Frederick Burbidge (age 7 Months born Hastings) and Amelia Burbidge (age 2 born Northampton).[2]

Worked for Grose

1910 Employed by Skinners, St. Leonards

1911 Living at 10 Mercatoria, St. Leonards On Sea, Sussex: Benjamin Burbidge (age 38 born Whittlebury, Northants.), Motor Engineer at Skinners of Western Road, St. Leonards. With his wife Amelia Burbidge (age 36 born Wensleydale) and their children Amelia Burbidge (age 12 born Northampton), Frederick Burbidge (age 10 born Hastings), Edith Annie Burbidge (age 7 born Hastings), and Elsie May Burbidge (age 3 born Hastings).[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 30 April 1910
  2. 1901 Census
  3. 1911 Census