G. P. Abraham

G. P. Abraham
Born	George Perry Ashley Abraham 1846 (1846) Devizes, Wiltshire, England
Died	1923 (aged 76–77) Keswick, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Photographer, postcard publisher, mountaineer
Known for	Landscape photography
Spouse	Mary Dixon
Children	George Dixon Abraham Ashley Perry Abraham Sidney Abraham John Abraham

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. 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.

External links

• Photographs of the Alps by G.P. Abraham at Harvard Art Museums.

Media related to G. P. Abraham at Wikimedia Commons