John Percy Farrar
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Distinguished Service Order
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(1857 – 1929), also known as Percy Farrar and as J. P. Farrar, was an English
English people
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soldier and mountaineer. He was President of the Alpine Club
Alpine Club (UK)
The Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857 and was probably the world's first mountaineering club. It is UK mountaineering's acknowledged 'senior club'.-History:...
from 1917 to 1919 and a member of the Mount Everest Committee
Mount Everest Committee
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Farrar was born in 1857, the eldest of the three sons of Charles Farrar MD
Doctor of Medicine
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, of Chatteris
Chatteris
Chatteris is a civil parish and one of four market towns in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in The Fens between Huntingdon, March and Ely...
, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
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. The second son became Sir George Farrar, Bt.
George Herbert Farrar
Sir George Herbert Farrar, 1st Baronet, DSO Sir George Herbert Farrar, 1st Baronet, DSO Sir George Herbert Farrar, 1st Baronet, DSO (17 June 1859 Chatteris, Cambridgeshire – 20 May 1915 Kuibis, South West Africa, was a South African mining magnate, politician and soldier - Colonel and assistant...
, and the third was Sidney Howard Farrar, member of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Institution of Civil Engineers
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and Fellow of the Geological Society of London
Geological Society of London
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