Oscar Colin Morison

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Oscar Colin Morison was an early English aviator born in Dulwich, London, on 22 November 1884. He earned the Royal Aero Club aviator certificate No. 46 on 31 December 1910 at Brooklands, flying a Blériot monoplane, and gave exhibition flights as aviation grew in England. In 1911 he entered the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain Air Race but did not start. On 7 March 1911 he became the first person to fly into Shoreham Aerodrome in a Blériot. In May 1911 he raced with Graham Gilmour from Shoreham to Blackrock near Brighton, finishing about one minute ahead of Gilmour.

Morison married Margaret Cleaver in 1912. With the start of World War I, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. In May 1916 he transferred to the Royal Naval Air Service. When the Royal Air Force was formed in 1918, he held the rank of Temporary Major. He rejoined the RAF in 1940 with a temporary commission for the duration of the war. Morison died on 17 May 1966 in Bournemouth, Dorset, aged 81, and was described as a "Gentleman."