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THE death of Sir Everard Ferdinand im Thurn, colonial administrator, anthropologist and naturalist, at eighty years of age, took place on October. 8 at his residence, Cockenzie House, Prestonpans. The son of John Conrad im Thurn, merchant-banker, he was educated at Marlborough and at Exeter College, Oxford. Before going to Oxford he had already in 1869 published a book on the birds of Marlborough. In 1877 he went to British Guiana as curator of the museum. Ho there took up the scientific study of the country and its peoples, being the first to ascend Roraima, and publishing a work on the botanical results of that expedition. In 1882 he was appointed judge in the Pomerun District and in 1890 was made Government Agent in the North-Western District. He joined the staff of the Colonial Office in 1899, having been made C.M.G. in 1892, and was made C.B. in 1900. He was appointed Colonial Secretary and Lieu-tenant-Governor of Ceylon in 1901 and Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Pacific in 1904. In the following year he was promoted to K.C.M.G. and in 1910 he retired. In 1918 he was made a K.B.E. From 1919 until 1921 he was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and on taking up his residence in Scotland shortly after he had held that office, he helped to organise and became the first local president of the Edinburgh branch of the Institute.
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Sir Everard Im Thurn, K.C.M.G., K.B.E. Nature 130, 602–603 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130602b0
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