Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates, 1880 – 1912. English Antarctic explorer.

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Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates, 1880 – 1912. English Antarctic explorer. Member of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the south pole, known for the manner of his death, when he walked from a tent into a blizzard, with the words "I am just going outside and may be some time". From The Story of Seventy Momentous Years, published by Odhams Press 1937.

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