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3 unusual facts about Wyndham Halswelle


Keeley Halswelle

In 1873 he married Helen, daughter of Major-general N. J. Gordon, who survived him with two sons, the younger being Wyndham Halswelle.

Wyndham Halswelle

Born in London to London-born, Edinburgh-trained artist Keeley Halswelle and Helen Marianna Elizabeth Gordon, he is nonetheless usually referred to as being Scottish, the nationality of his maternal grandfather, General Nathaniel J. Gordon.

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On his return, in a single afternoon in 1906 at the Scottish championships in Powderhall, he won the 100, 220, 440 and 880 yards races (91, 201, 402, 805 m), a feat that has not been matched since.



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