Tommy Sopwith (racing driver) to powerboat racing. He is the owner of Endeavour Holdings Limited, a car dealership in Portslade, Brighton, with a turnover of £17 million. He was educated at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire. Tommy Sopwith (racing driver) Thomas Edward Brodie Sopwith (born 15 November 1932) is a British businessman and former car racing driver. He is the son of English aviation pioneer and yachtsman Sir Thomas Sopwith, builder of the Sopwith Camel, and Phyllis Brodie. His success as a racing driver saw him win the first ever round of the British Saloon Car Championship in 1958. That year he narrowly lost out on
Thomas Sopwith racing. Sopwith's house in Mayfair, No. 46 Green Street, where he lived from 1934 until 1940, has a blue plaque. In 1940 he moved to Warfield Hall in Berkshire which he had acquired the previous year. Sopwith's 100th birthday was marked by a flypast of military aircraft over his home, Compton Manor in King's Somborne, Hampshire. He died in Hampshire on 27 January 1989, aged 101. His grave and that of his second wife Phyllis Brodie can be found in the grounds of the 11th-century All Saints Church at Little Somborne near Winchester. Thomas Sopwith Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith,