Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
FAWCETT, PERCY HARRISON, brother of Edward Douglas Fawcett (qv); b. 31 Aug 1867; adm. as exhibitioner (J) 16 Jun 1881; left Apr 1882; RMA Woolwich; Lieut., R. A. 24 Jul 1886; Capt., 14 Jun 1897; Royal Geographical Society diploma for surveying 1900; on mission to interior of Morocco 1901; Maj., 11 Jan 1905; seconded as boundary commissioner with Bolivian government 1906-10; retd. 19 Jan 1910; exploring in South America 1910-4; re-employed in British Army at end 1914; temp. Lieut. -Col. 6 Feb 1916; Lieut. -Col. 1 Mar 1918; served in 1914-18 war; despatches LG 4 Jan, 18 May, 11 Dec 1917, 20 Dec 1918; DSO 4 Jun 1917; Founder’s Medal, Royal Geographical Society 1917; again exploring in South America 1919-22; m. Nina, dau. of G. W. Paterson, Ceylon Civil Service; disappeared on further expedition to Brazil and presumed dead 1925.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.