A Trip to Baltistan, 1895: introduction

This is the journal kept by my Grandfather George William Tyndale Tyndale-Biscoe when he and his sister Fanny went to Kashmir in 1895 to visit their brother Cecil who was principal of a mission school in Srinagar, later to take his name, and still known by it (The Tyndale-Biscoe School).
Christened George William Tyndale, my Grandfather was born in 1864 at Holton Park, Oxfordshire, which his father William Earle Tyndale had inherited from his mother, Mary Anne Earle (née Biscoe), who had inherited it from her maiden sisters, Francis and Elizabeth, who themselves had inherited it from their unmarried brother Elisha Biscoe. Upon his inheritance, William Earl Tyndale changed his name to Biscoe, but his children were reluctant to lose a name which connected them to William Tyndale, translator of the Bible into English and a number of illustrious ancestors, so they all became Tyndale-Biscoes by deed poll.
George went to Bradfield public school, and from there studied engineering at King’s College, London, and is said to have built a railway bridge in Lancashire.
He married Isabel Annesley, a distant relation, of Clifford Chambers, Staffordshire, and both of them went to Srinagar, Kashmir where George helped his charismatic brother Cecil (later Canon) as vice-principal of the school he ran there.
He returned to Oxford about 1900 to study Theology.
His first son, Francis who would become a Friar belonging to the Anglican order of the Society of St Francis, was born at Oxford in 1904. He died in December, 2003.
In 1908, as a result of his experiences in Kashmir, George (aged 44) became principal of the CMS Baring High School in Batal, near Amritsar in the Punjab. Francis recalls that the family used to go into the mountains during the hot summer months - Dalhousie and Kashmir in 1908 where their second son John was born (died December 10, 1998).
In 1912 the family returned to England, staying at Woodside, near Hotlon, and George was ordained. He became a deacon and served in the parish of Bradfield for two years, then became curate at St Jude’s, Southsea.
When war broke out in 1914, he took an unusual step for a man of his class and worked in a munitions factory and then joined the Royal Medical Corps as a Private and was sent to Rouen. A member of the minor landed gentry, he could have been expected to have applied for a Commission.
IN 1920 he became Rector of Bishop’s Caundle in Dorset and in 1925 he became Rector of Shalstone, near Buckingham.
On February 17, 1930, Isabel died of kidney disease and now aged 66 and unwilling to continue in a ministry without her support, he resigned the living and went to live at Milford-on-Sea near his brother Arthur at Keyhaven.
He married Flora, a widow, who lived in the house next door. It was not a happy marriage, Flora being jealous of anybody who took up George’s time.
She died in 1954 and George went to live with his niece Barbara Waterman, daughter of Brigadier General Julian Tyndale-Biscoe of the 11th Hussars at Broadstone in Dorset who ran a guest house there..
He died in 1957 aged 93. Barbara died August 2000.