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
Born
Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell

(1880-03-05)5 March 1880
Leamington, Warwickshire
Died11 February 1964(1964-02-11) (aged 83)
Known forThe Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
AwardsFellow 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
  1. 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.
  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. 11: 146–155. 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
  9. http://freemasonry.london.museum/it/wp-content/resources/frs_freemasons_complete_jan2012.pdf

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