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Name	Bertram Armytage
Born	1869
Died	12 March, 1910 (aged ~ 41) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	suicide
Related Entries	[View as tree] Spensley, Martha Tasmania (aunt) Fairchild, Emma Australia (aunt) Armytage, Elizabeth (grandmother) Staughton, Mary Susan (grandmother) Armytage, George (grandfather) Warford-Mein, Tassie Constance (cousin) Armytage, Ada Elizabeth (cousin) Richmond, Florence Margaret (cousin) Williams, Eliza Mary (cousin)
Education *	Geelong Grammar School (Vic) (student, 1882-1884) Melbourne Grammar School (student, 1885-1886) Cambridge University (UK) (student, 1887-1889)
Occupation or Descriptor *	colonial militia (Australia) (1890-1900) Victoria, Australia grazier (unspecified) (1890-1900) Victoria, Australia adventurer (general) (1900-1910) Victoria, Australia
Military Service *	Boer War (British army officer)
Clubs *	Melbourne Club (member, ?-1910)
Key Events *	Antarctic expedition, 1907-09 (expeditionist)
Legacies *	Bertram Archer Prize (University of Melbourne) (eponym, 1920)
Properties *	Wooloomanata (Vic) (station hand, 1890)

* Dates are approximate

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