| LC control no. | n 2006057040 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ludlow, Frank, 1885-1972 |
| Associated country | England |
| Associated place | Himalaya Mountains |
| Birth date | 18850810 |
| Death date | 19720325 |
| Place of birth | Chelsea (London, England) |
| Place of death | Hillingdon (London, England) |
| Field of activity | Ornithology |
| Profession or occupation | Teachers Botanists |
| Found in | Frank Ludlow, 1885-1972, and the Ludlow-Sherriff expeditions to Bhutan and South-Eastern Tibet of 1933-1950, 1976: t.p. (Frank Ludlow) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 26 Feb., 2015 (Ludlow, Frank, traveller; born Chelsea, London, 10 August 1885; went to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1905, graduating in natural sciences in 1908, having studied botany; on graduation he was appointed to the post of vice-principal of Dayaral Jethmal Sind Arts College, Karachi; after the First World War, in which he served with the 97th Indian infantry in Mesopotamia, Ludlow became inspector of European schools, under the Indian educational service, with jurisdiction over a large swathe of northern India; was asked by his director to submit the names of candidates for the post of headmaster of the proposed school in the town of Gyantse; school that Ludlow ran from 1923 to 1926 was for Tibetan boys from ruling families; after the closure of the school Ludlow was invited by Frederick Williamson, formerly British trade agent in Gyantse, to visit him in Kashgar; it was in Kashgar that Ludlow met the botanist George Sherriff, with whom he undertook a series of legendary expeditions over the next twenty years; died of pulmonary fibrosis at the Harefield Hospital, Hillingdon, Middlesex, on 25 March 1972) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/96789> |
| Associated language | eng |
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