Thomas George Longstaff (1875 - 1964)

Born 15 Jan 1875 in Summergangs Hall, Hull, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Dora Mary Hamilton (Scott) Longstaff — married 1911 in St. Luke's, Lymington, Hampshire, England

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This profile is part of the Longstaff Name Study.

Biography

M.A. M.B. of Christ Church, Oxon.

F:ormerly Captain in the 1st City of London. R.G.A.

Tom Longstaff was a Doctor and an adventurous British explorer and mountaineer in the early 20th century.

In 1907 he climbed the 7000m Trisul in the Indian Himalaya's.

In 1905 he explored a possible route into the Nanda Devi Sancturay , that would later bear his name, to examine the South Ridge of Nanda Devi East.

Sources

• See Pedigree No. 4, from George Blundell Longstaff's book, "The Langstaffs of Teesdale and Weardale."

• My Carole Johnson transcriptions of the above mentioned book and the scanned pedigrees can be found at :- http://hcr1945.wixsite.com/longstaff-talltrees

• "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9XX-KBQ : 8 April 2016), Tom G Longstaff in household of Llewellyn W Longstaff, Wimbledon, Surrey, England; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Wimbledon subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

Acknowledgements

Profile created by Carole Johnson