G. P. Abraham
Born
George Perry Ashley Abraham

1846 (1846)
Devizes, Wiltshire, England
Died1923 (aged 76–77)
Keswick, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Photographer, postcard publisher, mountaineer
Known forLandscape photography
SpouseMary Dixon
Children

Mr & Mrs W S(?) Young, 26 November 1880, by G. P. Abraham, Keswick
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]

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary". The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 11 April 1923. p. 10. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  2. ↑ Kelly, Stephen F. (1991). Victorian Lakeland Photographers. Shrewsbury: Swann Hill Press. pp. 25–27. ISBN 1853102334.
  3. ↑ "Lakes Guides, relief models, Abraham 1860s-70s?". Geog.port.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 Berry, Natalie (30 January 2017). "Outdoor Photography with an Antique Camera". UKClimbing. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  5. ↑ "Ordinary Meeting [Minutes]". The Photographic Journal. Vol. 22 (New Series), no. 9 (May). London: The Royal Photographic Society. 1898. pp. 306–307. ISSN 1461-9466.
  6. ↑ "Person Details for George Perry Abraham, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005" — FamilySearch.org". familysearch.org. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Crow, Footless (25 June 2010). "Footless Crow: The Abraham Brothers Photographing the past". Footlesscrow.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Person Details for George P Abraham, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007" — FamilySearch.org". familysearch.org. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  9. ↑ Iddon, Henry (29 July 2016). "An introduction to Instanto Outdoors". George Fisher. Archived from the original on 3 November 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2017.

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