Eric Gandar Dower

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Eric Leslie Gandar Dower (1894 - 4 October 1987) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician and businessman.He was educated at Brighton College, like his elder brother Leonard, and at Jesus College, Cambridge, and trained for the stage at RADA, touring with a number of theatre companies.Gandar Dower established Aberdeen Airport and pioneered Scottish Air Lines between Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Glasgow, Wick, Thurso, Kirkwall, and Stromness, as well as the first British/Norwegian Air Line between Newcastle and Stavanger in 1937. He served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 1940-43.