Assuring mar (to date 29 the situation house our services fetch £800. Shepard fell with the Wey Valley when he stayed with his family the vicarage Shalford near Guildford. 1904 he moved to Shamley Green living from 1909 Red Cottage the village, and remained the Guildford area for over 50 years. He was appointed a captain the local Home Guard 1939 when he was 60 years old. Shepard bequeathed his papers to the University of Surrey 1974. Explorer on 's perilous expedition to the South Pole who uttered the immortal words before leaving the party to face his death: I am just going outside and be some time. Oates lived Selborne near Hampshire and his house is now a museum owned by the Oates Memorial Trust. Born Guildford whilst his mother was home from Kong, author and playwright Wodehouse was the creator of Wooster and his faithful manservant Jeeves with his stories providing a quintessential picture of English upper class society. Wodehouse also wrote for film, collaborated with Jerome Kern and Gershwin and worked with on the musical His birthplace, then 1 Vale Place, still stands. The detached Victorian house today has the address of 59 Epsom Road and has been subdivided into flats. A wall plaque on the entrance porch records the fact. Sean O', dramatist whose plays highlighted the plight of Ireland's poor classes, famously jibed him as being English literature's performing flea., a description that Wodehouse cherished much he adopted it as the title of his autobiography. The world speed record holder built his record breaking Bluebirds at Brooklands near Byfleet. He was the first to break the 300 mph on land 1935. It was his who was to die trying to break the 300 mph water speed record on Coniston Water the Bluebird K7 1967. Assistant at the public school Charterhouse Godalming from 1910 until 1915, was best known for being a mountaineer and member of the team that attempted to conquer Everest. He lost his life on the mountain 1924, and the mountain peak wasn't conquered for another 29 years. The wireless operator on the doomed luxury liner RMS Titanic went down with the ship whilst broadcasting distress signals a bid to summon help. Phillips was born Farncombe near Godalming. The scientist, inventor and engineer worked at the Brooklands airfield Weybridge for 58 years. Best known for being the inventor of the bouncing bomb, which was successfully used by the RAF during WWII their Dambuster raids the Ruhr area of Germany, Wallis also had a great other achievements. Initially working on airships with Vickers at Weybridge he pioneered geodetic engineering which resulted the largest airship ever built. When Vickers abandoned airship manufacture he turned his skills to aircraft design and the pre-war years designed the Vickers Wellington and Vickers Wellesley. Ever the eccentric-inventor, Wallis was often to be seen cycling around Brooklands with a greenhouse-like structure around his bicycle he had created to keep himself dry. As well as designing ground-breaking bombs during the war Wallis invented swing-wing technology, large cargo submarines, rocket-propelled torpedoes and pioneered the remote control of aircraft. He also undertook early work on the Concorde. Wallis was knighted 1968. Built his much admired Sopwith and Sopwith Pup at Brooklands near Byfleet. His aircraft are credited with gaining the upper hand against the airforce the First World War. The Australian aviation designer was architect of the Hawker Hurricane which proved to be a highly manoeuvrable fighter aircraft that contributed considerably to the defeat of the Luftwaffe the Battle of Britain. The Hurricane was designed and built at Brooklands near Byfleet, continuing a tradition of aeronautical innovation at the airfield. The author A.P. as he was more commonly known was born Elstead and originally started out to follow a legal career. He was called to the bar 1918 but never practised. Instead he was to follow a path politics serving as the Member of Parliament for University for 16 years and was committed to reforming laws that he felt were outdated including those on obscenity and divorce. was also a prolific writer writing satirical pieces for Punch Magazine including his celebrated series of which was to eventually be adapted by the BBC as three TV series of starring Alastair Sim and Doltrice. He also published eight novels and 15 plays. A cousin of Rudyard Kipling author Thirkell for a time lived and eventually died at Birtley House Bramley near Guildford. She wrote popular light comedy novels, often under the pseudonym using Trollope's fictional Barsetshire as a setting Smith, a second lieutenant the East Lancashire Regiment during WWI, was posthumously awarded the for gallantry the face of the enemy. Guildford -born Smith threw himself on top of a live grenade saving the lives of a group of fellow soldiers and officers whilst the trenches Gallipoli, Turkey. The French born actress lived for years Guildford and she is buried St 's churchyard on St 's Hill near Chilworth. Starting her careeer as a singer and pianist Arnaud performed with leading orchestras throughout Europe and from 1905 until 1911. Her first step to her acting career was securing the lead role the musical The Girl The Taxi 1911 but fate also took a hand as a throat operation damaged her vocal chords to such a degree that she had to give up singing. Her stage career lasted for years and Arnaud also starred