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THE death of Sir Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot on Nov. 13, at Henley-on-Thames, removes a great forester who spent forty-seven years of his life in the service of his country. Eardley-Wilmot was the fourth son of Augustus Hillier Eardley-Wilmot, and was born on July 17, 1852. He joined the Indian Forest Service in December 1873, after having spent three years undergoing his forestry training in Germany. There can be little doubt that some aspects of this training had a considerable influence on Eanley-Wilmot's subsequent career: for he was able to appreciate to the full the advantages, as also the weaknesses, of a purely German training, when strictly applied, to the very dissimilar and varying conditions of the sub-tropical and tropical forests. Wilmot was appointed to the old North-West Provinces and Oudh, spending the first sixteen years of his service as an executive officer in charge of several forest divisions in the Provinces. In 1890 he was promoted to administrative rank and passed the following eight years as Conservator in Oudh, where his organising ability, combined with his great professional knowledge, radically changed the management of the forests by introducing a more scientific conservancy and earned him the encomiums of the local government.
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STEBBING, E. Sir Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot, K.C.I.E.. Nature 124, 954–955 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124954a0
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