Lois Butler
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Lois Butler | |
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| Born | Lois Reid 3 November 1897 |
| Died | 17 August 1970 (aged 72) Piraeus, Greece |
| Resting place | St Mary's Church, Studham |
| Education | Havergal College, Toronto |
| Occupation | Aviator |
| Employer | Air Transport Auxiliary |
| Spouses | Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh William Knox-Niven
(m. 1918–1923) |
| Children | Lois Knox-Niven (wife of Michael Ventris), Alan David Butler and Carol Horton |
Lois Butler (born Lois Reid 3 November 1897 – 17 August 1970) was an Olympic skier, aviator and one of the early members of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA).
Lois Reid was born on 3 November 1897 in Montreal, Quebec, to Minnie (née Cormack) (d. 1949) and Sir William Duff Reid (1866–1924). She was their only daughter and had four brothers. Her father owned railways in Canada and was president of the Reid Newfoundland Co. Ltd.[1][2]
Reid was educated at Abbots Langley School in Britain and returned to Canada in 1913 to attend Havergal College in Toronto.[1]
She met her first husband, Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh William Knox-Niven, when he was working as aide-de-camp to the governor of Newfoundland. They married in 1918 and had one daughter, Lois Knox-Niven. Hugh Knox-Niven died in 1923.[1]
She and her second husband, Alan Samuel Butler, chairman of the De Havilland Aircraft Company, married in 1925 and had two children, a daughter, Carol and a son, David.[1]