Henry Hugh Peter Deasy
British Army officer and businessman
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- Henry Hugh Peter Deasy (29 Jun 1866 – 24 Jan 1947) was an Irish army officer, founder of the Deasy Motor Car Company and a writer.
- He served as a British Army officer, mostly in India, between 1888 and 1897, when he retired.
- Consequently, he won the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal in 1900 for surveying nearly 40,000 square miles (100,000 km 2 ) of the Himalayas.
- In 1898 during his time in Chinese Turkestan, he collected the holotype of the jerboa species Dipus deasyi , which is named after him.
- He also drove a Martini up a mountain rock railway near Montreux, Switzerland.
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WikipediaHenry Hugh Peter Deasy (29 Jun 1866 – 24 Jan 1947) was an Irish army officer, founder of the Deasy Motor Car Company and a writer.
He was born in Dublin, the only surviving son of Rickard Deasy, justice of the Court of Appeal in Ireland, and Monica O'Connor.
He served as a British Army officer, mostly in India, between 1888 and 1897, when he retired.
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