Who was Barnes Wallis?
Aeronautical Engineer and Inventor of the "Bouncing
Bomb".
Date and Place of Birth:
26th September 1887, Ripple, Derbyshire, England.
Family Background:
Younger son of a doctor Charles Wallis and his
wife Edith .
Education:
Christ's Hospital, London.
Chronology/Biography of Barnes Wallis:
1891: Family moved
to New Cross road, London where his father had found a new medical
practice.
Marriage:
April 1924 to Molly Bloxham who was 18 years
his junior.
Places of Interest:
SURREY:
Brooklands Museum, Brooklands, Weybridge.
Lived at White Hill House, Beech Avenue, Effingham
YORKSHIRE:
Yorkshire Air Museum, Halifax Way, Elvington,
York
Barnes Wallis Inn, Station Road, North Howden, Near Goole, has Wallis
memorabilia.
Date and Place of Death:
30th October 1979, Leatherhead, Surrey, England.
Age at Death:
92.
Site of Grave:
St. Lawrence Church, Effingham, Surrey next to
his wife. Wallis is in the South-East corner of the Churchyard between
the Vestry and the Old Vicarage. His headstone has an airship and
an aircraft on it. Wallis was once Secretary of the Parochial Church
Council for this church.
