Herman Glauert, 1892 - 1934

Hermann Glauert was born on October 4, 1892, in Sheffield, where his father, Louis Glauert, was a cutlery manufacturer. Louis Glauert was a naturalized British citizen of German birth, who settled in England when a young man. His wife was an Englishwoman, who was born in Germany. Hermann Glauert was educated at King Edward V Il’ths School, Sheffield, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to a scholarship in 1910. Among the men of his year were C. LI. Bullock, D. H. Pinsent, and G. P. Thomson, to name only those who later took part in the development of aeronautics. He led a normal, happy, and satisfying University life. He walked and talked, played lawn tennis well, and chess very well, and was an active member of an ephemeral society formed to read plays. It is said by one of his friends that his unusual mental powers might not have been fully realized at the time had he not been one of a party that played bridge regularly for three years on Sunday evenings, before the game had become a business. Glauert’s score mounted rapidly and steadily at the expense—fortunately small— of the rest of the party.