Researching Douglas Tompkins
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2585 people with the Tompkins surname? In that year Tompkins was ranked number 1517 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Douglas means "from a surname meaning black stream" and is of Scottish origin.
Records of Douglas Tompkins on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Douglas Tompkins and the Tompkins Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 2900 people with the Tompkins surname in the UK? Tompkins is now ranked number 1854 for popularity in the UK. |
Tompkins Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 24306 people with the Tompkins surname in the USA? Tompkins is ranked number 149 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Rainsford Tompkins (March 20, 1943 – December 8, 2015) was an American businessman, conservationist, outdoorsman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and agriculturalist. He co-founded the North Face Inc, Esprit and various environmental groups.
Beginning in the mid-1960s, he and Susie Tompkins Buell, his first wife, co-founded and ran two companies: the outdoor equipment and clothing company The North Face and the Esprit clothing company. Following their divorce and Tompkins' departure from the business world in 1989, he became active in environmental and land conservation causes. In the 1990s Tompkins and his second wife, Kris McDivitt Tompkins bought and conserved more than of wilderness in Chile and Argentina, exceeding that of any other private individuals in the region, thus becoming among the largest private land-owners in the world. The Tompkinses were focused on park creation, wildlife recovery, ecological agriculture, and activism, with the goal of saving biodiversity.
He had assembled and preserved the land which became the largest gift of private land to any South American government. Due to this, he was posthumously naturalized Chilean.
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