Dorothy Norman Spicer, married name Pearce (1908- 1946), aviator and pioneering aeronautical engineeer. Together with her business partner Pauline Gower set up a successful aeronautical company. She was the first woman to ever hold an aeronautical 'B' engineering certificate and went on to earn both a 'C' and 'D' certificates - a remarkable achievement. Also toured with the British Empire air display. She was killed in a passenger plane crash along with her husband, Flight Lieutenant Richard Pearce, near Rio de Janeiro in 1946.