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Harris, Sir Percy Wyn- (1903–1979)
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Harris, Sir Percy Wyn- (1903–1979), colonial governor and mountaineer
A. H. M. Kirk-Greene
Harris, Sir Percy Wyn- (1903–1979), colonial governor and mountaineer, was born at 1 Cumberland Road, Acton, Middlesex, on 24 August 1903, the eldest of the three sons and the second of the five children of Percy Martin Harris, managing director of a firm of builders' merchants and JP, and his wife, ...
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Moore, Adolphus Warburton (1841–1887), civil servant and mountaineer
Janet Adam Smith
Moore, Adolphus Warburton (1841–1887), civil servant and mountaineer, was born on 12 July 1841, the son of Major John Arthur Moore, a director of the East India Company. Educated at Harrow School, in August 1858 he became a junior clerk in the India Office...
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Mummery, Albert Frederick (1855–1895), political economist and mountaineer
Peter H. Hansen
Mummery, Albert Frederick (1855–1895), political economist and mountaineer, was born on 10 September 1855 at 4 Laureston Place, Dover, the son of William Rigden Mummery, a tanner, and his wife, Esther Ann Gange. The family had moved from Deal to Dover around 1850, on acquiring the tannery at nearby ...