Cuthbert Orde

Captain Cuthbert Julian Orde (18 December 1888 – 19 December 1968) was an artist and First World War pilot. He is best known for his war art, especially his portraits of Allied Battle of Britain pilots. Family background Orde was born on 18 December 1888 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the second of five children. He attended Framlingham College 1902–07. His parents were Sir Julian Walter Orde and Alice Georgiana Orde of Hopton House, Hopton, Norfolk. Sir Julian was the long-serving – from at least 1903 until 1914 – Secretary of the Automobile Car Club of Britain and Ireland (which became the Royal Automobile Club). In response to the Motor Car Act 1903 raising the speed limit to a mere 20 mph, in 1904 he went to the Isle of Man where, with permission of his cousin the Governor, he started the TT races. He was also an early member of the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom, serving on its committees as early as 1909. This may have inspired his sons to join the Royal Flying Corps.