Talk:C. F. Caunter

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Article needs to be broken down into sections in order to be more easily understandable/readable and to give it a better flow. --Ubardak (talk) 03:18, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

More work needed

I have done a certain amount with the article, but it is still needy. In particular the use of unpublished material is serious.

Some points. I presume [1] is his gravestone in Canada. A Catholic cemetery, reinforcing the impression from the Catholic school (Douai Abbey presumably, needs ref).

The father L. G. Caunter is presumably the electrical engineer of Baxter & Caunter, in London. The place of birth I can see on ancestry.com is Romford. Caunter is a West Country name, but this family in Essex may not be connected.

The industrial history is interesting, but hardish to check out. Charles Matthews (talk) 05:48, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Ah, the father is very likely Lionel George Caunter, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E., mechanical and electrical engineer, born 1867; mentioned in Who's who in Engineering, 1921 and 1924, The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook, Volume 34 (1924), background in Devon (Dittisham). His parents were apparently George Searle Caunter and Anastasia D'Alton from Limerick, a Catholic wedding.[2] And he married Gertrude Webb, daughter of F. W. Webb of Stratford-on-Avon. Education Cotton College is consistent with 1881 census data.[3] Charles Matthews (talk) 05:59, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

The name does not spring out to me. I will have a think during the day and get back to you later on. Apwoolrich (talk) 08:57, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

In view of his Science Museum links I did wonder if he was ever a member of the Newcomen Society, but can find no obituary in the Transactions nor does he appear in any of the earlier Membership lists I have. However his aircraft firm does appear in 2 numbers of the part-work Wonders of World Aviation ed Clarance Winchester I have a bound set, and the material is in Vol 2, p 817 Trainers of the RAF and 897-8, The Royal Air Force Reserve. The engines in the Miles Trainers then (1938) were Gipsy Moths. Caunter is nowhere mentioned. Sorry not to be of more help. Apwoolrich (talk) 18:33, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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