Harry de Windt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British explorer and travel writer
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Harry de Windt
- Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt (9 April 1856, Paris - 30 November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (Harry's sister Margaret was Brooke's wife), and is best known as an explorer and travel writer.
- His books were published under the name of Harry de Windt. Harry de Windt was the son of Captain Joseph Clayton Jennyns de Windt, of Blunston Hall, Highworth.
- He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1875, but did not take a degree, travelling with his brother-in-law from 1876 to 1878.
- He was married several times, his first wife was Frances Laura Arabella Long, sister to the 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall, whom he married in London in 1882.
- They were divorced in 1888.
- There was one child from this union, a daughter, Margaret Maude.
- Harry married (2ndly) Hilda Frances E Clark, daughter of the Rev Professor William Robinson Clark, in 1899.
- She died in 1924.
- In 1927 Harry married the actress Charlotte Elizabeth Ihle, better known by her stage name, Elaine Inescourt.
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