About Ernest Eldridge
Ernest Arthur Douglas Eldridge (18 July 1897 – 27 October 1935) was a British racing driver who broke the world land speed record in 1924. His was the last land speed record set on an open road. == Early life == Eldridge was born on 18 July 1897 at Willesden in Middlesex to a wealthy family. His father was a successful bill discounter. Educated at Harrow School he quit while in the 6th form to go to the Western Front, in the First World War. Eldridge joined the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, possibly as an ambulance driver. He may have also served in the French Artillery. Eldridge married Majorie M. Tooth in 1915 at Brentford in Middlesex; she died before the Second World War. A bigamist, he married a second time in 1925 to a French woman named Marie, whom he eloped with while still married to Marjorie. Not much is known about the years between 1918 and 1921 when Eldridge reappeared at Brooklands.
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