George Mallory

George Herbert Leigh Mallory (June 18 1886 – last seen June 8 1924) was a British mountaineer.

Education and family

In 1896, George attended boarding school in Eastbourne after completing preparatory school in West Kirby. At the age of 14, he won a mathematics scholarship to Winchester College. In October of 1905, Mallory entered Magdalene College, Cambridge to study history. During his time there, he became friends with John Maynard Keynes.

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1896 - Eastbourne - West Kirby - Winchester College - October - 1905 - Magdalene College, Cambridge - John Maynard Keynes

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On July 29, 1914 he married Ruth Turner, the daughter of Thackeray Turner, a local Arts and Crafts Movement architect in Godalming. As Britain was now embroiled in World War I, an Alpine honeymoon was out of the question. Instead they went camping. Locals became suspicious about two young people in the woods and thus were subsequently arrested on suspicion of being German spies.

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July 29 - 1914 - Godalming - World War I - German

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George served as a gunner in World War I in the Royal Garrison Artillery, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant before he returned home in 1919 after the Armistice. Before being allowed to join up (schoolmasters were automatically exempt from service) he wrote a pamphlet called "War Work for Boys and Girls".

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On September 9, 1915, George's first daughter, Frances Clare, was born. His second daughter, Beridge Ruth, was born on September 16, 1917. His son John was born on August 21, 1920 – half an hour before George returned from a climbing trip in the Alps.

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September 9 - 1915 - September 16 - 1917 - August 21 - 1920

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