Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Upton H. Pennyworth
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Upton H. Pennyworth (1896–1973) was a British explorer and writer famous for his travel narratives that appeared in monthly editions of The Itinerant Everyman. Pennyworth inherited his father's printing business but quickly turned his attention to zinc mining, becoming at the age of 28 a self-made millionaire.
Pennyworth is considered "the forgotten Shackleton" as he made several harrowing expeditions well into his later years—culminating in his memoirs Every Boy a Taxidermist, written during a seven year hiatus spent in a lighthouse atop the Kornblum glacier (the fifth-tallest glacier in the world).
Pennyworth discovered a species of Indonesian orchid and the flower, Phalaenopsis upton, is thus named after him.
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