HOLDICH, Sir Thomas Hungerford (1843-1929)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0402 THH
Held at	: Royal Geographical Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Collections/Collections.htm ›
Full title	: HOLDICH, Sir Thomas Hungerford (1843-1929)
Date(s)	: 1880-1929
Level of description	: Collection level
Extent	: 2 sketchbooks
Name of creator(s)	: Holdich | Sir | Thomas Hungerford | 1843-1929 | Knight | surveyor | Colonel

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1843; commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1862, he joined the Survey of India in 1865 and surveyed much of the North West frontier and Afghanistan; appointed to the Russian/Afghan boundary commisision in 1884 and later to the Pamir and the Perso/Baluch commissions; he settled the Argentine/Chile border dispute in 1902; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), 1868; Founders Medal, RGS, 1887; President of the RGS, 1917-1919; died, 1929.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Sketches and watercolours of Col Sir Thomas Holdich, 1880-1902, including notebook of sketches and watercolours made while a member of the Afghan Boundary Commission, 1885 and of Afghanistan, Persia and India, 1880-1896 and sketch book containing seven sketches of Patagonia, 1902.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

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

Finding aids:

Hand list and card index.

The RGS archives: a handlist / compiled by Christine Kelly. London: RGS, 1977.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Mounted watercolours and sketches by Holdich are held by the RGS picture library; Correspondence blocks, 1871-1930; Journal Ms Central Africa 1901, Mss Miscellaneous 1899, 1919; Journal Mss 1879, Nos. 1 and 2, 1881, 1885, 1901, Nos. 1 and 2; numerous references in RGS correspondence blocks.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing finding aids and Mill's Record of the RGS (1930). Revised by Sarah Drewery.

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

Date(s) of descriptions:
15 August 2001; Oct 2008.