Claudia Sydney Maia Parsons was a British engineer, writer and traveller.
12 Facts About Claudia Parsons
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Claudia Parsons's father was in the Indian Army and her mother came from a family with generations of employment in the East India Company.
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Claudia Parsons attended Tormead School, an independent girls school in Surrey.
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Claudia Parsons attended Guilford Technical Community College, where she completed a course on the auto-cycle engine.
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Claudia Parsons read about the formation of the Women's Engineering Society, and went with her mother to meet the organisation's Secretary, Caroline Haslett, who alerted them about a technical course at Loughborough University.
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In 1919 Claudia Parsons enrolled on an automobile engineering course at Loughborough University.
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Claudia Parsons was one of four women, "lady engineers", who were studying engineering out of three hundred students, and graduated in 1922.
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Claudia Parsons became a chauffeur-companion and drove clients across Europe, the Far East, India and America.
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In 1938 Claudia Parsons bought a Studebaker car in Delhi, nicknamed it Baker and drove with American anthropologist Kilton Stewart through Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and Tunisia.
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Claudia Parsons is recognised as being the first woman to circumnavigate the world in a car.
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Claudia Parsons was a member of the Women's Engineering Society and submitted a number of articles to the journal The Woman Engineer, including 'What not to do when motoring abroad'.
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Claudia Parsons never married, and when she was asked why she responded that men "very often threatened to stop me doing what I wanted to do".