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Violet Aitken (powerboat racer)

Violet de Trafford became Lady Violet "Vi" Aitken was a British powerboat racer. She became the chancellor of the University of New Brunswick for a decade.

Life
Trafford was born in London in 1926. Her parents were Lady Cynthia and Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 4th Baronet. She became Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet's third wife on New Year's Day 1951 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It was in Florida in the 1950s that she and her husband discovered the sport. They returned and in 1961 they brought the sport to Europe when the Daily Express sponsored the Cowes-Torquay Powerboats competed for two weeks over the 1700 mile route and Aitken came eighth. Aitken died in 2021 at her home in Lambourn from COVID-19. ==See also==
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