Everard F. im Thurn

Politician, Author

1852 – 1932

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Who was Everard F. im Thurn?

Sir Everard Ferdinand im Thurn, KCMG, KBE, CB was an author, explorer, botanist, photographer and British colonial administrator. He was Governor of Fiji 1904-1910.

Im Thurn was educated at Marlborough College, Oxford University, Edinburgh University, and Sydney University. His first book, dedicated to his headmaster, was a study of The Birds of Marlborough. After his education, im Thurm travelled to British Guiana—called Guyana since its independence from Great Britain—to become the Curator of the British Guiana Museum from 1877. He remained in this post until 1882, and later became a Stipendiary Magistrate in Pomeroon.

In December 1884 he led the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Roraima, in Venezuela's Gran Sabana region, along with Harry Perkins, an Assistant Crown Surveyor who was also living in British Guiana. He was a keen photographer and author of several works related to his expedition to Roraima, which were published in scientific journals, including: "The Botany of Roraima Expedition of 1884: being notes on the plants observed; with a list of the species collected, and determinations of those that are new", and Among the Indians of Guiana: being sketches, chiefly anthropologic from the interior of British Guiana, etc.", which includes detailed observations of the Pemon Indians of Venezuela.

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Born
1852
Also known as
  • Everard im Thurn
Profession
Education
  • Exeter College, Oxford
Died
Oct 9, 1932

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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