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Howard Somervell.
English surgeon, mountaineer, painter and missionary (1890-1975)
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Theodore Howard Somervell OBE, FRCS (16 April 1890 - 23 January 1975) was a British surgeon, mountaineer, painter and missionary who was a member of two expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s, and then spent nearly 40 years working as a doctor in India. In 1924 he was awarded an Olympic Gold Medal by Pierre de Coubertin for his achievements in mountaineering (Alpinism).
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