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Claygate’s Own Polar Hero

Frank Arthur Worsley DSO* OBE RD (1872 – 1943) By Simon Leifer, Chair, Esher Residents Association Many will be admirers of Ernest Shackleton and his crew’s amazing navigational feats on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916, so I will not go into great detail here but, did you know that Frank Worsley, the New Zealand born sailor and explorer who captained ‘Endurance’, had English parents and died in Claygate?

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Rosebriars – what’s in a name?

Local playwright, R C Sherriff is memorialised in Lower Green’s Sherriff Close, but what is Rosebriars? Sherriff Close and Rosebriars are both named for Sherriff, but for different reasons. “Sherriff Close” is an obvious naming but what is his connection to “Rosebriars”? “Rosebriars” was the name of Sherriff’s family home in Esher Park Avenue and, when he died in 1975,

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