Henry Royce

Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE was an English car designer who, with Charles Rolls, founded the RollsRoyce company.

Frederick Henry Royce was born in Alwalton, Huntingdonshire, near Peterborough, in 1863, to James and Mary Royce , as the youngest of their five children. His family ran a flour mill which they leased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners but the business failed and the family moved to London. His father died in 1872 and Royce had to go out to work selling newspapers and delivering telegrams, having had only one year of formal schooling.

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