Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks (1887–1971) was the second British woman to gain a Royal Aero Club aviator's licence, in 1911.

In the 1901 Census Cheridah was living at the Hotel Metropole on Northumberland Avenue, Strand, London with her sister Bessie and her widowed mother.

The membership of this league included test pilot Mrs Winifred Buller, Lady Anne Savile and Eleanor Trehawke Davies, Emmeline and Cristabel Pankhurst.

The original plans had included Hilda Hewlett, Hélène Dutrieu and Jane Herveu but on the day she was alone.

[1][7] Her husband David, a Commander in the Royal Navy, died on 31 January 1918 when the submarine HMS K4 was lost in an accident.