Background
Cheridah was born Cheridah Annie Ernst on the 6 November 1887 in Evercreech, Somerset, England, the daughter of Henry Ernst, a magistrate, and his wife Annie (née Waring).
Cheridah was born Cheridah Annie Ernst on the 6 November 1887 in Evercreech, Somerset, England, the daughter of Henry Ernst, a magistrate, and his wife Annie (née Waring).
On the 7 November 1911 she became only the second woman to gain a Royal Aeronautical Club aviators certificate passing her test using a Farman biplane at Hendon. Following a crash during an airshow at Hendon in 1913 she was unconscious for six weeks and her recovery was closely followed by the newspapers of the day. Stocks never flew again.
Her husband David a Commander in the Royal Navy died on 31 January 1918 when the submarine HMS K4 was lost in an accident.
Stocks went on to study at Oxford and gained a Bachelor of Science in Social Anthropology, she died on 1 May 1971 in Northampton aged 83.