ONE hundred years ago financier J. Whitaker Wright of Witley Park near Godalming took his life by swallowing a cyanide capsule shortly after being sentenced to seven years imprisonment. History ...

Nineteenth-century company promoter James Whitaker Wright is probably best known as a financial swindler whose corporate house of cards led to a panic in the London stock exchange at the turn of the ...

It’s like something from a children’s mystery book—a hidden wooden door, which leads you down stone steps and into a boat for a short underground row to two large doors—and then, into the cavernous ...

One of the most lavish private residences in the world used to stand in quiet corner of Surrey. Nestled between Godalming and Haslemere, was an extravagant 32-bedroom mansion, as well as a racecourse, ...