George Pearson Glen Kidston (23 January 1899, Kensington, London, England – 5 May 1931, Natal, South Africa) was a record-breaking English aviator and motor racing driver. Kidston was a member of the well known Bentley Boys of the late 1920s, and possibly the wealthiest of that already wealthy set. His father, A.G. Kidston, was a grandson of the original A.G. Kidston who was a metal and machinery merchant in Glasgow with interests in the Clyde Shipping Company, local solicitors, accountants and banking interests amalgamated into the Clydesdale Bank. Andrew Bonar Law MP was a Kidston, by his mother, and Chancellor of the Exchequer during World War I, being briefly Tory Prime Minister in the year of his death 1923 ("The Forgotten Prime Minister, the life and times of Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1
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