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Keith is credited with starting the process of large-scale conservation of the forests of North Borneo (now Sabah). [3] [4] In 1984, a new species of Rafflesia endemic to Sabah, Rafflesia keithii, was named in his honour. [2] [5] Keith was the husband of author Agnes Newton Keith. The couple had two children: a son (Henry George Newton Keith ...
Their son, Henry George Newton Keith, was born on April 5, 1940. Their daughter Jean is mentioned, though not by name, in Keith's first book, Land Below the Wind, on page 174 of the first edition, dated 1939: "A picture stood on the table by us of our little girl at home in her party dress." On page 171, while discussing the small local boy ...
The Bohemian Club's mascot is an owl, here cast in masonry, and perched over the main club entrance at 20601 Bohemian Ave, Monte Rio, CA 95462.. The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note.
Keith had previously written Land Below the Wind. Her husband, Harry Keith, was Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture in North Borneo. [4] Their son George was born in 1940. [5] When the Keiths were living in Borneo, it was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Army and they were interned there from January 1942 to September 1945.
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era.
Three Came Home is a 1950 American World War II film directed by Jean Negulesco, based on the memoirs of the same name by writer Agnes Newton Keith.It depicts Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for.
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Henry Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel (1922–2002), Scottish judge Harry Keith (Henry George Keith, 1899–1982), British conservator of forests in North Borneo Topics referred to by the same term