Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth

For other people of this name, see Richard Shuttleworth.

Richard Shuttleworth
Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth
Born(1909-07-16)16 July 1909
Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England
Died2 August 1940(1940-08-02) (aged 31)
Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England
Occupation(s)Aviator
Racing driver

Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth (16 July 1909 – 2 August 1940)[1] was a racing motorist, aviator and prolific collector of veteran cars and aircraft. His collection forms the nucleus of the Shuttleworth Collection. He was killed in an air crash on a night RAF training exercise in 1940.[2][3]

  1. ^ Flight, Here and There, p111, 8 August 1940
  2. ^ Ogilvy 1989, Ch. 1.
  3. ^ "Private Collection of Aircraft". Birmingham Daily Post. 1 November 1956. Retrieved 12 July 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.