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    OK, Dover Aero Club. The group was set up in late November 1911 and at that point it appears that they were responsible for the creation of the Aerodrome.

    From Flight 30th Nov 1911:

    Dover Aero Club (11, MARINE PARADE).

    SINCE the inception of this club, not so many months
    ago great headway has been made in establishing it as one of
    the most powerful aeronautical clubs in the country, it including
    many men of considerable standing in the affairs of Great
    Britain, the membership at the present time totalling to 80.
    Amongst those who were instrumental in founding the club were
    Capt. W. P. Marley, Commander S. E. Forster, Capt. H. O. H.
    Moore, R.E., Capt. W. J. Todd, Capt. H. M. Ingle, and Mr. P.
    Harrington Edwards. The president of the club is the Marquis
    Camden, whilst the vice-presidents include Lord Kitchener, Vice-
    Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, and the Right Hon. Sir George
    Wyndham, M.P.

    Excellent club flying grounds have been established on Whitfield Hill,
    about three miles out of Dover, and it is proposed that these
    should be enlarged and enclosed, thereby creating a very good
    permanent aerodrome. The club proposes becoming associated
    with the Royal'Aero Club, and owing to its unique position in
    relation to the Continent there is little doubt that the name of the
    Dover Aero Club will stand out in the history of the British aviation world.

    The original twenty-five
    founders of the body will probably have reason to look back upon
    their work in the future with considerable satisfaction.' These
    founder members comprise Brig.-Gen. F. S. Inglefiei'd, C.B.,
    D.S.O., Commanding at Dover; Sir W. H. Crundall, Mayor and
    Chairman of the Harbour Commissioners; Commander S. E.
    Forster, R.N., the King's Harbour-Master at Dover; Sir M.
    Bradley ; Mr. E. P. Barlow, of Kearsmey Court; Lieut. -Col. A.
    Dowell; Major H. Davies; Mr. A. C. Leney and Mr. Eric
    Crundall, County Councillors for Dover; Mr. Walter Emden,
    ex-Mayor ; Mr. F. W. Duckham, of Messrs. Weetman Pearson
    and Co. ; Capt. F. Fitzgerald; Mr. T. B. Harby, Clerk to the
    Justices; Mr. W. C. Hawke, Borough Engineer ; Dr. Ian Howden,
    J. P. ; Capt. H. M. Ingle ; Rev. F. de W. Lushington, Headmaster
    of Dover College ; Rev. G. H. Andrews, Chaplain to the Duke ot
    York's Royal Military School ; Mr. Eric Snepp, Mr. P. H. Edwards,
    Mr. W. Saul, Mr. V. Elkington, Capt. W. h . Marley, Capt. H. O.
    Moore, and Capt. W. J. Todd. The address of Capt. Marley, who
    is the honorary secretary and treasurer, is 11, Marine Parade, Dover,
    to whom communications should be addressed in connection with
    the affairs of the club.

    The inaugural meeting of the flying grounds was on Wednesday
    and Thursday of last week, but the elements proved anything but
    kind for such an event, the first day being very boisterous, and on
    the second the promised gymkhana exhibition flights having to be
    dispensed with owing to the absence of Mr. Barber, who was to
    have given some demonstrations on one of his Valkyrie machines.
    Mr. Valentine fortunately was secured for the occasion, but his
    racing Deperdussin monoplane was hardly suitable for anything
    beyond demonstrations of high-class speed flying and landing.
    Mr. Valentine made an excellent flight from the aerodrome on the
    Thursday, in spite of a very treacherous wind.

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