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The Honourable Charles Stewart Rolls (August 27, 1877 - July 12, 1910) teamed up with Henry Royce, to found the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm.

He was born in Berkeley Square, London but retained a strong family connection with his ancestral home of The Hendre, Monmouth, Wales. He was a son of the 1st Baron Llangattock. Rolls was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and from his youth was interested in engines.

Rolls started one of Britain's first car dealerships when he started importing and selling French-made vehicles. He teamed up with Henry Royce to found the manufacturing company in 1906, Royce providing the technical expertise to go with Rolls's financial backing and business acumen.

Rolls was also a pioneer aviator. He was a founding member of the Royal Aero Club and was the second person in Britain to be licensed to fly by them.

On June 2, 1910, he became the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane. In the same year, he was killed in an air crash at Bournemouth when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off, making him the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident, and the eleventh internationally.

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