| LC control no. | n 50048104 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kingdon-Ward, F. (Francis), 1885-1958 |
| Variant(s) | Wa-tʻe, 1885-1958 Ward, Francis Kingdon, 1885-1958 Kingdon-Ward, Francis, 1885-1958 Ward, F. Kingdon (Francis Kingdon), 1885-1958 Kingdon-Ward, Frank, 1885-1958 |
| Associated country | England India Burma China |
| Birth date | 1885-11-06 |
| Death date | 1958-04-08 |
| Place of birth | Manchester (England) |
| Place of death | Wimbledon (London, England) |
| Profession or occupation | Plant collectors Explorers |
| Found in | The land of the blue poppy, 1913: t.p. (F. Kingdon Ward, B.A., F.R.G.S.) Plant hunting on the edge of the world, 1930: t.p. (F. Kingdon Ward, B.A. (Cantab.), F.L.S.) Berried treasure, 1954: t.p. (F. Kingdon-Ward, O.B.E., F.R.G.S.) Return to the Irrawaddy, 1956: t.p. (Frank Kingdon-Ward, O.B.E., B.A. (Cantab.), F.R.G.S., F.L.S., V.M.H., etc.) dust jacket (F. Kingdon-Ward) Who was who in lit., 1906-1934, c1979 (Ward, F. Kingdon; b. 1885) His The mystery rivers of Tibet, 1985: t.p. (Captain F. Kingdon Ward, B.A., F.R.G.S., late Indian Army Reserve of Officers) Lyte, C. Frank Kingdon-Ward, 1989: t.p. (Frank Kingdon-Ward) p. xii, etc. (b. 11/6/1885; d. 1958) LC manual cat. (hdg.: Kingdon-Ward, Francis, 1885-1958; usage: Captain F. Kongdon Ward) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 11 Apr., 2017 (Ward, Francis [Frank] Kingdon-, plant collector and explorer; born in Manchester on 6 November 1885; Frank (as he always preferred to be called); in 1909 he jumped at an invitation, through another family friend, to join an American zoological expedition; he went with this up the Yangtze (Yangzi) River to the borders of Tibet; The peoples of Burma, Assam, and Tibet were much more to his liking and the region, being more difficult of access, was even less well known and its flora more splendid still; Kingdon-Ward died of a stroke in hospital at 31 Copse Hill, Wimbledon, on 8 April 1958) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34327> |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 91019339 |
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