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Australian aviator

Maude Rose "Lores" Bonney, AM, MBE (20 November 1897 – 24 February 1994) was a South African-born Australian aviator.

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Lores was born Maude Rubens in Pretoria, South Africa on November 20, , and came to Melbourne with her parents in She married Harry.

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She was the first woman to fly solo from Australia to Britain.^[1]

Early life and education

Maude Rose Rubens was born on 20 November 1897 in Pretoria, South African Republic, the only child of Rosa Caroline (formerly Staal, née Haible) and German-born Norbert Albert Rubens, a clerk and later a merchant.

She later adopted the name Dolores, shortened to "Lores" (pronounced Lor-ee) in preference to her given names.^[2][3] The family moved first to England in 1901, then to Australia in 1903. After education first in Melbourne, at the Star of the Sea Ladies’ College and the Cromarty Girls’ School, in Elsternwick, she then attended Victoria-Pensionat in Bad Homburg, Germany in 1911 to advance her music studies at a finishing school, becoming an accomplished pianist but suffering from stage fri