In the history of enterprise, Hilda Hewlett is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Hilda Hewlett as Aviator and business entrepreneur (1864–1943).
Hilda Hewlett was born at Vauxhall in 1864. Her recorded nationality is United Kingdom.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
She worked as aircraft pilot, entrepreneur and engineer.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from United Kingdom shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Hilda Hewlett died in 1943, aged 79. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
