Mason was the last Englishman ever to be killed by a totally unknown and uncontacted tribe. However, after four months, an unknown indigenous people found the group's trail, laid an ambush, and killed Richard Mason with arrows and clubs. The Brazilian mapping agency, IBGE, sent a three-man survey team to help map these unknown forests and rivers and gave the Expedition permission to name features it found. In 1961, with fellow Oxford graduates Richard Mason and Kit Lambert (who later managed The Who), he was part of the Iriri River Expedition into unexplored country in central Brazil. He was educated in the United Kingdom at Eton College, in Canada at McGill University, and read history at Oxford where he obtained a Doctor of Letters degree and became an honorary fellow of Magdalen College. John and his sister Louisa were brought back to London when he was two months old. So he sent John's mother, Alice Hemming, a journalist, on a cruise through the Panama Canal that ended in British Columbia. His father, Henry Harold Hemming, who had served in the First World War, likewise foresaw the Second, and wanted his son to be born in North America. Hemming, was born in Vancouver on the 5th of January, 1935. John Henry Hemming CMG FSA FRSL FRGS (born 1935) is a historian, explorer, and expert on the Incas and indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin.
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