Charles Joy (engineer)
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Charles Frederick Joy (13 September 1911 – 12 April 1989) FRAeS was a British aeronautical engineer and designer.
He was the elder son of William J. Joy.[1] He attended Ramsey Abbey Grammar School,[2] where he played in the school cricket team.[3] He came third in the school high jump competition.,[4] and also played in the school football team, scoring goals.[5] He won a prize for science in 1928.[6]
His brother Jack William Joy (born c.1912) gained a Huntingdonshire County Scholarship to the grammar school in June 1924,[7][8] who took part, and won, school athletics competitions, winning the high jump and long jump in 1927[9] and the high jump in 1929.[10] His brother was also in the school cricket team.[11][12] His sister also went to the grammar school.
His family attended the local Wesleyan Methodist church, where his brother sang in the choir.[13][14] His father, brother and sister Betty took part in the life of the local Methodist church at Ramsey St Mary's, but Charles did not.
On Wednesday 12 April 1939 at around 8.30am, his brother, driving a Riley car on St Mary Road, knocked down a cyclist, seven-year-old Colin Darlow, who later died of his injuries,[15] after being attended to by Dr John Popplewell. Jack lived on Biggin Lane.[16]
His sister married Edward Ralph Woodward on 7 August 1939 at Ramsey. [17]
