R. B. Seymour Sewell
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell CIE FRS[1] FLS FZS (5 March 1880 – 11 February 1964) was a British military doctor who served with the Indian Medical Service and an amateur naturalist, editor of The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma 1933-1963.[2][3]
R. B. Seymour Sewell | |
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Born | Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell 5 March 1880 |
Died | 11 February 1964 83) | (aged
Known for | The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Sewell was born in 1880 in Leamington, Warwickshire. His father was the reverend Arthur Sewell, and his mother was Mary Lee (née Waring).[4] His grandfather was Robert Burleigh Sewell (1810–1872), who had a number of notable siblings, including Richard Clarke Sewell (1803–1864), William Sewell (1804–1874), Henry Sewell (1807–1879), James Edwards Sewell (1810–1903), and Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906).[5] He studied at Cambridge (Christ's College) and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He received a B.A. (Hons) from Cambridge in 1902 and qualified M.C.R.S. & L.R.C.P. in 1907.
He was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service as a Lieutenant 1 February 1908 and was promoted Captain 1 February 1911.
He served during the First World War and was Mentioned in Dispatches in the London Gazette 6 July 1917.
He was promoted Major 1 August 1919 and Lieutenant-Colonel 1 August 1927.[6]
His last appointment was as Director of the Zoological Survey of India from 17 July 1925 to his retirement.[7]
He retired 5 March 1935.[8]
He was a freemason, having been initiated in 1912.[9]
References
- Pantin, C. F. A. (1965). "Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell 1880-1964". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 11: 146–155. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1965.0010.
- A.L. Rice (2004). "Sewell, Robert Beresford Seymour". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36029.
- ‘SEWELL, Lieut-Colonel Robert Beresford Seymour’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 30 May 2011
- "The Papers of Lt.Colonel Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell". The National Archives. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- Pantin, C. F. A. (November 1965). "Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 11: 146–155. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1965.0010. JSTOR 769267.
- Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 by D. G. Crawford
- Indian Army List January 1931
- Indian Army List January 1939 War services volume
- http://freemasonry.london.museum/it/wp-content/resources/frs_freemasons_complete_jan2012.pdf
Further reading
- http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/currsci/1/339.pdf
- http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7149/1/silas_357-359.pdf
- "Obituary Notices". BMJ. 1 (5381): 505–506. 1964. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5381.505.