Frederick W. Lanchester

British polymath.

Born October 23rd, 1868 in Lewisham.

Died March 8th, 1946 at 77 years old in Birmingham.

Occupations
engineer, entrepreneur, inventor, non-fiction writer
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I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. William Faulkner