Eleanor Shelley-Rolls

Eleanor Georgiana Shelley-Rolls (9 October 1872 – 15 September 1961) was one of the original signatories of the Women's Engineering Society founding documents.

[citation needed] She was the daughter of John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock and Georgiana Marcia Maclean.

[2] Before World War One, she and her husband flew in hot air[citation needed] balloons, often sharing a flight with May Assheton Harbord, the first woman to hold an Aeronaut's Certificate in UK.

[3] The couple in one of the earliest Zeppelins, and in an early type of aeroplane in the pre war years.

[4] On 23 June 1919, she became one of the seven co-signatures of the Memorandum of Association for the formation of the Women's Engineering Society alongside Rachel Parsons; Lady Katharine Parsons; Janetta Mary Ornsby; Margaret Rowbotham; Margaret, Lady Moir and Laura Annie Willson.