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Claude Reignier Conder
Claude Reignier Conder (29 December 1848, Cheltenham – 16 February 1910, Cheltenham) was a British soldier, explorer and antiquarian. He was a great-great-grandson of Louis-François Roubiliac.[1][2]
Conder was educated at University College London and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He became a lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1870. He carried out survey work in Palestine in 1872–1874, latterly in conjunction with Lt Kitchener, later Lord Kitchener,[3] whom he had met at school,[2] and was seconded to the Palestine Exploration Fund from 1875 to 1878 and again in 1881 and 1882, when he was promoted captain. He retired with the rank of Colonel in 1904.[4]
Conder was first proposed as a candidate for the Jack the Ripper murders by the author Tom Slemen.[5]
Contents
Publications
- 1878: Tent Work in Palestine ISBN 1-4179-2238-9
- 1880: Memoires: The Survey of Western and Eastern Palestine ISBN 1-85207-835-9
- 1886: Syrian Stone Law
- 1887: Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions ISBN 1-4326-0939-4
- 1893: The Tell Amarna Tablets
- 1902: The First Bible
- 1909: The City of Jerusalem
Books, freely available
- Conder, Claude Reignier (1879) Tent Work in Palestine, vol 1
- Conder, Claude Reignier (1879) Tent Work in Palestine, vol 2
- Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 1 The full text, archive.org, Can download PDF.
- Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 2 The full text, archive.org, Can download PDF.
- Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 3 The full text, archive.org, Can download PDF.
- Conder, Claude Reignier (1885), Heth and Moab : explorations in Syria in 1882, archive.org, http://www.archive.org/details/hethandmoab00conduoft
- Conder, Claude Reignier (1887), Syrian Stone-Lore; Or, the Monumental History of Palestine, archive.org, http://www.archive.org/details/syrianstoneloreo00conduoft
- Conder, Claude Reignier (1887), Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions, archive.org, http://www.archive.org/details/altaichieroglyph00condrich
- Conder, Claude Reignier (1889), Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions, archive.org, http://www.archive.org/details/altaichieroglyph00conduoft
References
- ^ William Thomas Whitley (1928). Artists and their friends in England, 1700–1799, Volume 1. The Medici society. p. 93.
- ^ a b John Charles Pollock (1998). Kitchener: the road to Omdurman. Constable. p. 23. ISBN 0094791406.
- ^ Stewart Howe, Kathleen (1997). Revealing the Holy Land: the photographic exploration of Palestine. University of California Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 0899510957.
- ^ "CONDER, Claude Reignier". Who's Who, 59: p. 371. 1907. http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA371.
- ^ Tom Slemen (2010). "Towards a Solution". Jack the Ripper, British Intelligence Agent. Bluecoat Press. ISBN 9781904438915.
- Moscrop, John James (2000). Measuring Jerusalem: the Palestine Exploration Fund and British interests in the Holy Land. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 98–99. ISBN 0718502205.
- Yadin, Yigael (1977). Masada. La fortaleza de Herodes y el último bastión de los Zelotes. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino. ISBN 84-233-0537-6.
External links
Works written by or about Claude Reignier Conder at Wikisource- Profile at PEF website
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