R. B. Seymour Sewell

R. B. Seymour Sewell
Born Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell
(1880-03-05)5 March 1880
Died 11 February 1964(1964-02-11) (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]

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]

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ "The Papers of Lt.Colonel Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell". The National Archives. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Pantin, C. F. A. (November 1965). "Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society. 11: 146. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1965.0010. JSTOR 769267.
  6. ↑ Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 by D. G. Crawford
  7. ↑ Indian Army List January 1931
  8. ↑ Indian Army List January 1939 War services volume

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