Up for auction "Travel Writer" Harry de Windt Hand Written Letter Dated 1882.
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Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt (9 April 1856, Paris - 30
November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of
Sarawak (Harry's sister Margaret was Brooke's wife), and is best known as an explorer
and travel writer. His books were published under the name of
Harry de Windt. Harry de Windt was the son of Captain Joseph Clayton Jennyns de
Windt, of Blunsdon Hall, Highworth. He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1875, but did not take a
degree, travelling with his brother-in-law from 1876 to 1878. He was married several times, his first wife
was Frances Laura Arabella Long, sister to the 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall, whom he married in London
in 1882. They were divorced in 1888. There was one child from this union, a
daughter, Margaret Maude. Harry married (2ndly) Hilda Frances E Clark, daughter
of the Rev Professor William Robinson Clark, in 1899. She died in 1924. In 1927
Harry married the actress Charlotte Elizabeth Ihle, better known by her stage
name, Elaine Inescourt.