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                            Introduction
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Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt  (9 April 1856 - 30 November
1933) was an explorer and travel writer. His books were published
under the name of Harry de Windt.


                             Early life
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Harry de Windt was born on 9 April 1856 in Paris. He was the son of
Capt. Joseph Clayton Jennyns de Windt, of Blunsdon Hall, between
Swindon and Highworth in Wiltshire, England, and Elizabeth Sarah
Johnson. Among his siblings was sister Margaret Alice Lili de Windt,
who married Charles Brooke.

He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1875, but did not
take a degree, travelling with his brother-in-law.


                               Career
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From 1876 to 1878, de Windt served as aide-de-camp to his
brother-in-law, Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak.

In April 1897, while attempting to travel by land from New York to
Paris, he became seriously ill at Paris after enduring exposure and
poor treatment at Tchuktchis, Bering Strait. In July 1902, he reached
Dawson after traveling from Siberia on a river steamer with Viscount
Desclinchams, Belgrade of Paris, George Harding (an English
photographer), and Stephen Rastorguyef (a Russian from Yakutakat who
"the Russian government insisted should accompany De Windt through the
wilds of Siberia").


                           Personal life
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On 18 July 1882 at St George's, Hanover Square in London, Harry
married Frances Laura Arabella Long. The couple had a daughter,
Margaret, in 1884 and divorced in 1888. He married Hilda Frances E.
Clark, who died, without issue, in 1924. Three years later he married
the actress Charlotte Elizabeth Ihle, better known by her stage name
Elaine Inescourt.

Harry died at Bournemouth on 30 November 1933.


                               Works
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* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007656924 'On the equator'
(1882)]
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100767654 'From Pekin to
Calais by land' (1889)]
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006253920 'A ride to India
across Persia and Baluchistan' (1891)]
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100248328 'Through the
gold-fields of Alaska to Bering Straits' (1898)]
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* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006089917 'From Paris to New
York by land' (1903), 1904 2nd printing]
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                           External links
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[http://www.clark-hogg-family-history.org/ch-gallery-de-windt-harry.htm
Harry de Windt biographical information].
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