George Eyston
Race Car Driver
Driver, engineer, and inventor, who who set the land speed record multiple times in the 1930s.
He began his career in European road races, where he usually raced Bugattis.
He is credited with inventing a high-power gearbox that he used to help break the land speed record.
He was born in Bampton, Oxfordshire, and died in Lambeth, England.
He attended Trinity College, which produced alumni such as Francis Bacon.