Alfred Lawson was an American by birth but was well known in the United Kingdom and across the world. In fact he started his professional life as a baseball player, but it was no for this that he gained world wide acclaim. He was a great innovating inventor in the aviation industry and is credited not only with inventing the airliner as we know it today but setting up the first scheduled air mail service in the world. He went on to start his own religion which had less success.