Howard Somervell
Surgeon, Military Person
1890 – 1975
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Who was Howard Somervell?
Theodore Howard Somervell OBE, FRCS 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.
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