George Perry Abraham

• Name — G. P. Abraham • Birth Name — George Perry Ashley Abraham • Birthplace — Devizes, Wiltshire, England • Died — 1923 • Place of death — Keswick, England • Occupation — Photographer, postcard publisher, mountaineer • Known for — Landscape photography • Spouse — Mary Dixon • Children — * George Dixon Abraham • Ashley Perry Abraham • Sidney Abraham • John Abraham • Illustration — Mr & Mrs W S(?) Young, 26 November 1880, by G. P. Abraham, Keswick • Illustration — Gathering the Fell Sheep, G. P. Abraham Ltd postcard

George Perry Ashley Abraham was born in Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1846.

He worked as a photographer with Elliot & Fry of Baker Street, London, before becoming apprenticed to Alfred Pettitt in Keswick in 1862, and then starting his own business in 1866. Abraham did studio portraits, but his passion was for photographing landscapes. He founded G. P. Abraham Ltd, a postcard publisher, in Keswick in England's Lake District, and became a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1898.

In 1870, he married Mary Dixon in Cockermouth, Cumberland. He had four sons. The two eldest, George and Ashley Abraham, were important popularisers of mountain climbing. Sidney was a bank manager in Keswick, and John Abraham became acting Governor of Tanganyika. Abraham died in 1923.

George Perry Abraham is recorded as photographer, postcard publisher and mountaineer. Recorded at birth as George Perry Ashley Abraham.