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VANDELEUR, Lt Col Seymour (1869-1901)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0402 SVA

Held at: Royal Geographical Society

Title: VANDELEUR, Lt Col Seymour (1869-1901)

Date(s): 1893-1901

Level of description: collection

Extent: 2 files

Name of creator(s): Vandeleur | Seymour | 1869-1901 | Lieutenant-Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1869; educated, Farnborough School, 1879-1882 and Sandhurst, 1882-1889; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1893-1901; Scots Guards, 1899; served in Somaliland and Abyssinia, 1894; Foreign Office, Uganda, 1894-1895; took part in Ungoro, Nile and Nandi expeditions where he undertook surveying; awarded the Murchison Grant, 1897; served in West Africa, 1896-1897; Egypt, 1897-1899; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, South Africa, [1900]-1901; died, 1901.
Publications: Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger (1898)

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Observation files of Maj Seymour Vandeluer, 1893-1901, comprising observations on altitudes and bearings in Uganda, 1895 and observations on altitudes, meteorological observations and bearings, upper Nile and Sudan, 1899.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Accessible via The Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist, and subject to the completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without the permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

RGS Archives: Correspondence Block 1881-1910 (Vandeleur, Major Seymour) - RGS/CB7/91.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Prepared by Archives volunteer using existing card index. Revised by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) ed. 2, name authority NRA.

Date(s) of descriptions: 13th December, 2000; May 2008.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Geographical data | Geography
Meteorological data | Meteorology
Surveying

Personal names
Vandeleur | Seymour | 1869-1901 | Lieutenant-Colonel

Corporate names

Places
Nile, river | Africa
Sudan | East Africa
Uganda | East Africa