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1922-24 Mount Everest Expedition collection of picture postcards and related photographs.
A series of 17 postcards issued by the Mount Everest Committee, unused, from the collection of R. G. W. Hingston
of Passage West, Co. Cork, who was on the expedition as a naturalist. Also with this lot a collection of photographs
by or featuring Hingston on other expeditions, mainly in India, and some other postcards, generally good to fine.
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Richard William George Hingston,was born in 1887. His family home was in Passage West County Cork. He
graduated from University College Cork in 1910, and obtained a position in the Indian Medical Service.
In 1913 he was seconded as naturalist to the Indo-Russian Pamir triangulation expedition. In 1914 he went on
war service and saw action in East Africa,France, Mesopotamia, and the N.W. Frontier,gaining two mentions in
dispatches and the Military Cross for gallantry in action.
In 1924 he was appointed medical officer and naturalist to the Mount Everest Expedition, although he was not a
mountaineer by profession but rather a doctor and naturalist.
From 1925 till 1927 he acted as surgeon-naturalist to the Marine Survey of India. Hingston retired from the I.M.S.
on pension in 1927. He subsequently undertook missions to Greenland, British Guiana, Rhodesia, Nyasaland and
East Africa. He was recalled to military duty in India in 1939, and remained there until 1946. After the second
world war Major Hingston retired to his home in Passage West Co.Cork. He died there on 5 August 1966.
Provenance: R. W. G. Hingston, Passage West;
Estimate €150-€200 £130-£170
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 116