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G. C. Boase
revised by Peter Rivière
Schomburgk, Sir Robert Hermann (1804–1865), surveyor and traveller, was the son of the Revd Johann Friedrich Ludwig Schomburgk, a protestant minister in Thuringia, and Christine Julian, the daughter of J. Krippendorf, counsellor of the princes of Reuss-Gera. Schomburgk was born at Freiburg in ...
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J. K. Laughton
revised by Elizabeth Baigent
Wellsted, James Raymond (1805–1842), surveyor and traveller, was in 1828–9 secretary to Sir Charles Malcolm, superintendent of the Bombay marine. In 1830 he was appointed second-lieutenant of the East India Company's ship Palinurus, then engaged, under Captain Moresby, in making a detailed survey of the ...