British swimmer, olympic silver medallist, former world record-holder.
Born August 15th, 1893 in Stokesley, Great Ayton.
Died March 30th, 1965 at 71 years old in Middlesbrough.
It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks