He married Nina Agnes Paterson in January 1901. In 1886, Percy received a commission in the Royal Artillery and he served in Trincomalee, Ceylon, where he also met his wife. His elder brother Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866–1960) was a mountain climber, Eastern occultist and author of philosophical books and popular adventure novels. Percy Fawcett's Indian-born father was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). He received his education at Newton Abbot Proprietary College alongside Bertram Fletcher Robinson, a future friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In Torquay, Devon, England,to Edward Boyd Fawcett and Myra Elizabeth (née MacDougall). Percy Harrison Fawcett was born on 18 August 1867 The paper leaves the impression that surveys did not agree, whereas in point of fact I had not and never have actually visited the Heath above the last point of which I have recorded the geographical co-ordinates, which I put roughly as some 10 miles from the head of the largest stream which formed the river." My work in 1910 was to trace the main course of this hitherto unknown river and not only were the experiences of the small party extremely exacting, as it always is in ascending small rivers, but the terms of the International Treaty governing this section of the frontier rendered any detail of the numerous small streams forming the head of the Heath quite unnecessary at that time whilst the lateness of the season, combined with the need of reaching the junction of the Lanza and the Tambopata, and a subsequent descent of the latter to Astillero with a party rather the worse for its adventures, rather curtailed time for any attention to unnecessary detail. The remainder, dotted in the map, was purely supposititious, the course of the small streams having been estimated by the general contour of the mountains. I never actually visited the source of the Heath, but only traced the river to the junction of two streams near the source, the actual point being indicated on my map of 1910. 110) that “Fawcett’s Survey of the Heath River… was accepted, but not his source of that river.”įawcett writes: "May I be permitted to suggest that there has been a misapprehension? Holdich’s interesting paper on the “Peru-Bolivian Boundary Commission” in the February Journal, I notice (p. MEETINGS : ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (see copy below) He clarifies the confusion in a Royal Geographic Society meeting. However, he never set foot on the source but only reaching into the upper Heath headwaters before he was forced to retreat down the Tambopata River in 1910. On his map of the Heath River Fawcett shows a spot marked as the source. (described in Exploration Fawcett, chapter 12 Good Savage) He was the first to explore the Heath River from it's outflow up into the headwaters on his 1910 Heath River Survey Expedition. His expeditions were followed worldwide until his dissaperance in 1925. Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was a famous South American Explorer in the early 20th Century.
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