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Name: MACKINDER, Halford John PC, Rt. Hon. Sir
Birth Date: 15.2.1861 Gainsborough
Death Date: 6.3.1947 Bournemouth
First Date: 1893
Profession: One of first men to climb Mt Kenya with Italians Cesar Ollier, an Alpine guide, and Joseph Brocherel, apprentice guide, from Courmayeur on South side of Mt. Blanc. Geographer
Area: Oxford University, LSE, Unionist MP 1910/22
Married: In Virginia Water, Surrey 3 Jan 1889 Emilie Catherine 'Bonnie' Ginsberg b. 1869 West Derby, Lancs., d. 24 Mar 1962 Valais, Switzerland
Author: 'The First Ascent of Mount Kenya' ed. K. Michael Barbour, 1991
Book Reference: Gillett, Debrett, North, Chandler
School: Epsom College and Christ Church College, Oxford
General Information:
Debrett - Bar, Inner Temple 1886; Leader of Mount Kenya Expedition in EA 1899; was Reader in Geography, Oxford Univ. 1887-1905, Principal of Univ. College Reading 1892-1903, Director of London Sch. of Economics and Political Science 1903-8, and a Member of Senate of London Univ. 1903-8, and of Roy. Commns. on Income Tax, and Awards to Investors 1919-20 etc.