1917- . British pilot. Commissioned with the
Royal Air Force on the outbreak of the World
War II, he won the Victoria Cross,
Distinguished Service Order (with 2 bars),
and Distinguished Flying Cross. A devout
Roman Catholic, he founded the first Cheshire
Foundation Home for the Incurably Sick 1948.
In 1959 he married Susan Ryder (1923-) who
established a foundation for the sick and
disabled of all ages and became a life
peeress 1978.