Archibald Ross Colquhoun

Archibald Ross Colquhoun (18481914) was an English traveler. He became associated with the Indian Public Works Department in 1871. After acting as secretary of the British Commission to Siam, he in 188182 and 188384 made extensive tours of exploration in order to found a route for a railway between India and China. He became Administrator of Mashonaland in 1890, and in 1895 visited Central America as a representative of the Panama and Nicaragua canal projects. His travels are related in various books he wrote, which include:
* "Across Chrys" (two volumes, 1883)
* "The Opening of China" (1884)
* "English Policy in the Far East" (1885)
* "The Key of the Pacific" (1895)
* "China in Transformation" (1895)
* "Overland to China" (1901)
* "Greater America" {1904)
* "Mastery of the Pacific" (1904)
* "The Africander Land" (1906)
* "The Whirlpool of Europe; AustriaHungary and the Habsburgs" (with Mrs. Colquhoun, 1907)
* "From Dan to Beersheba — Reminiscences of Public Service" (1908)
* "Germany and Sea Power" (1909)
* "China in Reformation" (1912)