"Kate" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > > > "Geoff Pearson" wrote in message news:[email protected] > > This chap lived in my house, here in Edinburgh, with his parents and > aunts, > from 1897-1906, at > least. The Wikipedia article contains a lot of info but does anyone know > more about him - who he married and was there a child? Did he just live > in > India or, as some suggest, he lived in London? > > I've been all over Ancestry, Scotland's People, and the internet and I've > sent an email to the current Director of the Geological Survey of India. > But chums here often have a clever idea. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Heron > > Geoff > > > Hi Geoff > > Try Google Books, you will find a number of references to him. > > Regards > > Kate > Sydney, Australia > > Thank you - and I've a lot of the story in "Into the Silence" by Wade Davis - about the climbing of Everest.