Tex Geddes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Scottish author and adventurer
Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1919
Place of Birth: Peterhead, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 11-Apr-1998
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Tex Geddes
- Joseph "Tex" Geddes (24 October 1919 – 11 April 1998) was a Scottish author, adventurer, and self-styled Laird of Soay best known for the memoir Hebridean Sharker (1960) about his adventures on sharking boats off the west coast of Scotland with Gavin Maxwell and others.
- Geddes was a central character in Maxwell's Harpoon at a Venture (1952), an account of their failed shark oil extraction venture on Soay and also featured in Ian Mitchell's Isles of the West (1999).
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