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Massingham, Harold John, son of Henry William Massingham, of Bloomsbury, by his first wife, Emma, daughter of Henry Snowdon, of Norwich; b. March 25, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1901 (H); left (with Triplett) July 1906; Queen's Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1906; writer and journalist; member of the Board of Trade Committee for Administering the Plumage Act (Prohibition of Imports) 1921; author of a number of well-known books on natural history and the English country scene of which The English Countryman (1942) was perhaps the most important: 'As various as Cobbett, with something of Cobbett's obstinacy but without his eccentricity. ' (The Times Aug. 25, 1952); m. 1st July 30, 1914, Speedwell Gertrude, daughter of Arthur Black, of London; 2nd 1933, Penelope Anne, daughter of Alexander Josiah Webbe, of Chelsea; d. Aug. 22, 1952.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1883 to Election 1960, Volume 3, compiled by J.B. Whitmore, G.R.Y. Radcliffe and D.C. Simpson, Barnet, 1963