HUNT. The Ascent of Everest 1953 1st Ed. Bookplate Sir Landsborough Thomson

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Seller: sirmarksomme ✉️ (869) 100%, Location: Liverpool, GB, Ships to: GB & many other countries, Item: 195900360450 HUNT. The Ascent of Everest 1953 1st Ed. Bookplate Sir Landsborough Thomson. 1st edition 1953 HB with DJ in clear plastic. Contains ex libris bookplate of Sir Landsborough Thomson He was born in   Edinburgh   on 8 October 1890 the son of   John Arthur Thomson   FRSE   and his wife Margaret Stewart. The family lived at 10 Kilmaurs Road. [2]   He was educated at the   Royal High School, Edinburgh   until 1899, when his father moved to   Aberdeen   as Professor of Natural History at   Aberdeen University . Arthur completed his education at   Aberdeen   Grammar School. [3]   The family then lived at 15 Chanonry in Aberdeen. [4]

Arthur then studied Natural History (under his own father) at Aberdeen University, graduating MA in 1911.

In the First World War  he served as a Lt Colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders . He received a Military OBE for his services.

After the war (from 1919) he became a medical researcher and remained in this role until retiral in 1957. He was created a Commander of the Order of the Bath for this work in 1933 by King George VI  and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II  for this work in 1953.[5]  In 1962 the Royal Society 's Buchanan Medal  for services to medicine.[6]

In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . His proposers were James Ritchie , Sir David Wilkie (surgeon) , Charles Henry O'Donoghue  and William Kalman .[7]

He was president of the British Ornithologists' Union  (BOU) from 1948 to 1955. He was President of the Zoological Society 1946 to 1950. He was Chairman of the British Trust for Ornithology  (BTO) from 1941 to 1947 and won the Trust's Bernard Tucker Medal  in 1957. In 1959 he was awarded the BOU's Godman-Salvin Medal .

He died at Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton  on 9 June 1977.

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  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Non-Fiction Subject: Biographies & True Stories
  • Language: English
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition
  • Author: Hunt, John
  • Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton

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