Claude Bettington
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Claude Albemarle Bettington (13 May 1875, Cape Colony - 10 September 1912, Wolvercote, Oxfordshire, England) was a mining engineer and a pioneer aviator from South Africa.
Claude Albemarle Bettington was the son of Col. Rowland Albemarle Bettington. He attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown from April to December 1890.[1]
Military service
At the start of the Boer War Bettington served in the Imperial Light Horse from its formation to May 1900, later a lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, 14th Battery from May 1900 to end of war.[1]
Engineering career
Bettington was a member of the Mechanical Engineers Assn. of the Witwatersrand and a member of the Chemical and Metallurgical Assn. of the Witwatersrand. and worked as a mining mechanical engineer from 1891 to outbreak of the Boer War in 1899. Bettington invented a new type of steam boiler.[2] and together with Anthony M Robeson[3] invented a boiler furnace for burning pulverized fuel.[4]