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Carveth Wells
British adventurer and writer (1887–1957)
Grant Carveth Wells (21 January 1887 – 16 February 1957) was a British adventurer, travel writer, and television personality in the mid-twentieth century.[1]
Wells was the author of eighteen travel-related books, including Six Years in the Malay Jungle, Road to Shalimar, and North of Singapore.[1]
Wells also produced films, radio and television shows relating to his travels.[1]
Biography
Wells was born in Surrey, England, to Bermudian Thomas Grant Wells and Anna Carkeet.
His father was one of a long line of forebears named Thomas Wells, stretching back to the seventeenth-century settlement of the Somers Isles (or Islands of Bermuda).[2] His father was a Member of the Council of Bermuda and Ensign of the Bermuda Militia and had been a civilian paymaster of the Royal Naval Dockyard in the Imperial fortresscolony of Bermuda.
His paternal grandfather, Asael