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Mr & Mrs W S(?) Young, 26 November 1880, by G. P. Abraham, Keswick
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Gathering the Fell Sheep, G. P. Abraham Ltd postcard

George Perry Abraham FRPS (1846 – 10 April 1923[1]) was a British photographer, postcard publisher, and mountaineer.

Early life

George Perry Ashley Abraham was born in Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1846.

Career

He worked as a photographer with Elliot & Fry of Baker Street, London, before becoming apprenticed to Alfred Pettitt in Keswick in 1862, and then starting his own business in 1866.[2][3][4]

Abraham did studio portraits, but his passion was for photographing landscapes.[4] He founded G. P. Abraham Ltd, a postcard publisher, in Keswick in England's Lake District, and became a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1898.[4][5]

Personal life

In 1870, he married Mary Dixon in Cockermouth, Cumberland.[6]

He had four sons. The two eldest, George and Ashley Abraham, were important popularisers of mountain climbing. Sidney was a bank manager in Keswick, and John Abraham became acting Governor of Tanganyika.[7]

Abraham died in 1923.[8]

Legacy

The photography business was carried on by Ashley's son, before being wound up in the 1970s.[9]

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