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COLQUHOUN, Archibald Ross was born in March 1848 in off Cape of Good Hope. Son of late Doctor Archibald Colquhoun, Honourable East India Company’s Service, of Edinburgh.
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Russia against India The struggle for Asia
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Archibald Ross COLQUHOUN
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Scotland; Continent.
Career
Indian Public Works Department, 1871. Secretary and second in command of Government Mission to Siam and Siamese Shan States, 1879. Explored from Canton to Bhamo to trace best route for connecting Burmah and China by railway, 1SS1-82.
Times correspondent Franco-Chinese War and whole Far East, 1883- iSS4.
Proposed annexation of Upper Burmah, and visited Siam in connection with railway construction, 1885. Deputy-Commander Upper Burmah, 1885-1889.
Accompanied Pioneer Force South Africa, and on occupation of Mashonaland became Administrator, 1890. Executed Manika treaty.
Invalided home, 1892.
Visited United States 1893. Retired 1894.
Visited Central America to examine Nicaragua and Panama Canal routes, 1895. China 1896, in connection with negotiations for railways.
Travelled through Siberia, Eastern Mongolia, and China from north to south, 1898-1899.
Travelled in Pacific, Dutch East Indies, Borneo, Philippines, Japan, returning via Siberia. 1900-1901.
Travelled in West Indies, Central America and United States, 3.
Travelled 1904-1905 throughout South Africa. Has been Times correspondent in various parts of world.
Gold Medallist Royal Geographical Society. Silver Medallist Society of Arts. Editor of United Empire (Royal Colonial Institute Journal).
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Amongst the Shans
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Amongst the Shans 1885 [Hardcover]
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Russia against India The struggle for Asia
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Amongst the Shans
Membership
Member of Institution of Civil Engineers. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Spouse 1900, Ethel (author of Two on their Travels, 1902), daughter of Samuel Cookson, Doctor of Medicine, of Forebridge, Stafford.
