R. B. Seymour Sewell

R. B. Seymour Sewell
Born Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell
5 March 1880
Died 11 February 1964 (aged 83)
Known for The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society[1]

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]

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.[4]

His last appointment was as Director of the Zoological Survey of India from 17 July 1925 to his retirement.[5]

He retired 5 March 1935.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pantin, C. F. A. (1965). "Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell 1880-1964". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 11: 146–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1965.0010.
  2. ↑ A.L. Rice (2004). "Sewell, Robert Beresford Seymour". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36029.
  3. ↑ ‘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
  4. ↑ Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 by D. G. Crawford
  5. ↑ Indian Army List January 1931
  6. ↑ Indian Army List January 1939 War services volume

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