Sir Percy Wyn- Harris (1903–1979) by Walter Bird, 1959 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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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, ...