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unusual facts about Esher


Cyril Ridley

Cyril Burfield Ridley was born in Esher, Surrey on 15 January 1895, the son of Douglas and Victoria Ridley.


Edmund Clifton Stoner

Stoner was born in Esher, Surrey, the son of cricketer Arthur Hallett Stoner.

Esher Place

Over the next 75 years, Esher Place was held by at least seven individuals, the last two being Sir Thomas Lynch, an early English governor of Jamaica, and John Latton, a pluralistic place-holder under William III.

Esher railway station

Esher railway station featured on Little Howard's Big Question, a children's TV show, when they confused the Dutch graphic and mathematical artist M. C. Escher with Esher and one of his drawings is mistakenly thought to be the railway station.

Henry VIII Novices' Chase

The event is named after Henry VIII, who commandeered Esher (the location of Sandown Park) as a royal hunting ground in the sixteenth century.

La Raulito

The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires.

The real life La Raulito, Mary Esher Duffau died at the age of 74 on 30 April 2008 on the same day Boca Juniors played a Copa Libertadores match against Brazilian club, Cruzeiro Esporte Clube with the players and fans observing a minutes silence in her remembrance.

Ladyshore Colliery

The matter was taken to the Court of Appeal at the House of Lords where on 15 January 1887, under a bench consisting of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (commonly known as Law Lords) Esher MR, Bowen LJ and Fry LJ.


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