Skip to main content

Wherry, George Edward, 1852-1928 (surgeon and Alpine climber)

 Person

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Album of photographs, watercolours and newspaper articles, chiefly relating to mountaineering, 1882 - 1918

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XXI.12
Scope and Contents The photographs and watercolours are chiefly of the Alps, mountaineers, Alpine villages and flora. The newspaper articles are Wherry's accounts of Alpine mountaineering. There are also smaller quantities of pencil sketches of, among others, Caldy Island, Manorbier Castle in Pembrokeshire and Etretat on the coast of Normandy; together with photographs of the lower leg and foot of the adult male and baby [? taken for Wherry's book Alpine notes and the climbing foot (1896)] and loose cuttings...
Dates: 1882 - 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Alpine Club and general climbing papers, 1890 - 1928

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3
Scope and Contents

Includes: photographs of Wherry with other Alpine Club members, letters to and about Wherry's climbing interests and related papers.

Dates: 1890 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.
 File

Alpine Club photographs: members, climbers, guides and mountains, 1890s

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/1
Scope and Contents

A collection of photographs featuring Wherry with fellow Alpine Club members and guides (in formal, posed groups and climbing) and selected named peaks.

Dates: 1890s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.
 Item

Beneath the Summit, Aiguille de Blaitiere - climber with guide, 1890s

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/1/8
Scope and Contents

May show Wherry or, possibly, Francis Aston-Binns (d.1898), with guide (possibly Xaver Imseng) and climbing equipment.

Dates: 1890s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.
 Item

Climbing group including Wherry, La Berarde, 1894

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/1/10
Scope and Contents

Mounted photograph with handwritten annotations. Includes: Joseph Turc, Pierre Gaspard, Mathon, Hippolyte Rodier, George Edward Wherry, Felix von Rath, Francis Aston-Binns, Herr C. G. Grisar.

Dates: 1894
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.
 Item

Dents du Bouquetins, 1890s

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/1/12
 File

George Wherry (1852-1928), 1990 - 1999

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XXI.3.11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The records cover club administration and activities, especially lectures and meets.

Dates: 1990 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

George Wherry in a formal group, possibly with fellow Alpine Club members, 1890s

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/1/3
Scope and Contents

Five men and three women, including Wherry (possibly back, 2nd left) and Francis Aston-Binns (back right).

Dates: 1890s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.
 Item

George Wherry with fellow climbers, 1890s

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/1/2
Scope and Contents

L-R (back row): Wherry; Francis Aston-Binns; unknown; (front row) Xaver Imseng and W. Alois Kalbermatten (guides); unknown.

Dates: 1890s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.
 Item

Letter to [Francis Henry Hill] Guillemard from [Arthur William] Hill following news of Wherry's death, 1928-10-10

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/2/3
Scope and Contents

Hill recounts the memories of [Sir Richard Tetley] Glazebrook at the Athenaeum, after hearing of Wherry's death, about climbing with Wherry when they slipped into a crevasse, damaging Glazebrook's foot and dislocating Wherry's rib.

Dates: 1928-10-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.
 Item

L'Eveque, Grivola and Paradiso from Collon, 1890s

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/1/4
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the peak and surroundings only.

Dates: 1890s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.
 File

Other papers relating to Wherry's alpine climbing interests, 1885 - 1926

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/2/3
Scope and Contents Includes: handwritten diary notes of Wherry's climb of the Weisshorn, 1910 (this has later annotations by Wherry, sending it to someone - possibly A. D. Godley - and asking for its return); notes for speech given to Alpine Club in 1912 with hand-written notes and amendments; single sheet passport for Wherry, aged 61, 'a British Born subject travelling on the Continent', issued by the British Envoy to the Swiss Confederation, 4 August 1914; British Association of Members of the Swiss Alpine...
Dates: 1885 - 1926
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.
 Item
 File

Two drawings of eyes showing 'hard chancre on palpebral conjunctiva' with accompanying letter, 1882

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/1/5
Scope and Contents

One drawing dated 12 January 1882 on reverse. With letter from E[dward] Nettleship of The Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom returning the drawing to Wherry, 5 December 1882.

Dates: 1882
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open access.

Additional filters:

ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
University Archives (GBR/0265) 2
 
Subject
Mountaineering 10
Climbing 9
Mountaineers 9
Alps (mountain system) 4
Mountaineering expeditions 3