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Friend and employer of George Mallory.

David Herbert Somerset Cranage was the son of Dr Joseph Edward Cranage of Old Hall, Wellington, Shropshire and was educated at King's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1897 and he held curacies at Little Wenlock (1897–98) and Much Wenlock (1898–1902) in Shropshire. He was an academic at the University of Cambridge, where he lectured on mediaeval churches and was Secretary of the Local Lectures Syndicate, until his appointment as Dean of Norwich, a post he held for 19 years.

He appointed George Mallory to his position as lecturer and assistant secretary in the Cambridge University Board of Extramural Studies in 1923.

He died on 22 October 1957, aged 91.

Alan Goodfellow was a pupil of George Mallory at Charterhouse School. He joined Mallory on some of his climbing trips.

Climbing sherpa on 1921 Mount Everest Expedition with George Mallory, mentioned by name.

Friend of George Mallory, born in Ireland, wife of Brigadier Walter Headfort Brooke.

Karma Paul was a interpreter on the 1922 and 1924 British Mount Everest Expeditions, mentioned by name by George Mallory.

Among the climbers of the 1924 Third British Expedition to Everest Karma Paul had perhaps one of the least glamorous but most important jobs. He wasn't a climber, he never summited Everest, but as the group's translator his job was vital in communicating with the native Himalayan people and with the group's own Sherpa.

Karma Paul was fluent in Nepali, English and Tibetan and would serve as the translator for all the British expeditions from 1922 to 1938. Aside from his work as interpreter Paul also served as a recruiter and all-around moderator between the expedition and the native people.

Following the death of Sherpa Shamsher Pun from a likely blood clot on the brain, Paul was dispatched to the Rongbuk Monastery to see if the Sherpas, who were suffering low spirits following the death of young Pun, might be blessed by the head Lama there. The Lama agreed and invited the entire expedition to the monastery where he blessed them all and declared that they had been forced back by demons who would not do so again.

Following his career on Everest, Paul trained himself to be a skilled auto mechanic and in the 1950s won a small fortune at the horse races. He retired to Darjeeling.

Robert Graves had been a pupil at Charterhouse when George Mallory was a Master there. Mallory introduced him to contemporary literature and took him mountaineering in the holidays.

At the outbreak of the First World War Graves enlisted taking a commission in the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a second lieutenant (on probation) on 12 August. He was confirmed in his rank on 10 March 1915, and received rapid promotions to lieutenant on 5 May 1915 and to captain on 26 October.

He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. He developed an early reputation as a war poet and was one of the first to write realistic poems about the experience of frontline conflict. At the Battle of the Somme, he was so badly wounded by a shell-fragment through the lung that he was expected to die and was officially reported as having died of wounds. He gradually recovered and, apart from a brief spell back in France, spent the remainder of the war in England.

French painter and lithographer.

English engraver. Pupil of the celebrated mezzotint engraver Samuel William Reynolds (1773–1835).

British politician.

Portrait engraver in London. Brother of William Holl the younger (1807-1871). Later emigrated to USA.

English engraver.

Scottish radical and political. His association with the philosophic radicalism of Ricardo, Mill, and Bentham led him to support reform of local government, financial assistance for popular education, and alleviation of the harsher aspects of the penal code.

Irish miniature painter.