Harry de Windt

Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt FRGS[1] (9 April 1856, Paris – 30 November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (Harry's sister Margaret was Brooke's wife), and is best known as an explorer and travel writer.

[2] His books were published under the name of Harry de Windt.

Harry de Windt was the son of Captain Joseph Clayton Jennyns de Windt, of Blunsdon Hall,[3] between Swindon and Highworth in Wiltshire, England.

He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1875, but did not take a degree, travelling with his brother-in-law from 1876 to 1878.

In 1927, Harry married the actress Charlotte Elizabeth Ihle, better known by her stage name, Elaine Inescourt.

Harry de Windt pictured in his From Paris to New York by Land