See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

HERMANN See also:

• SIR ROBERT HERMANN SCHOMBURGK (1804-1865)

SCHOMBURGK (1804-1865)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British traveller, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• FREIBURG

Freiburg, Prussian See also:

• SAXONY
• SAXONY (Ger. Provinz Sachsen)

Saxony, on the 5th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1804, the son of a See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister . In 1829 he went to the See also:

• UNITED

United States, but in 1830 See also:

• LEFT

left for Anegada, one of the Virgin Isles . He surveyed the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island at his own expense, and sent to the Royal See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

Geographical Society, See also:

• LONDON

London, a See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report which created such an impression that, in 1835, he was entrusted by that See also:

• BODY

body with the conduct' of an exploring expedition to British See also:

• GUIANA (Guyana, Guayana')

Guiana . He fulfilled his See also:

• MISSION

mission with See also:

• GREAT

great success, incidentally discovering the See also:

• VICTORIA
• VICTORIA (or VITTORIA), TOMMASSO LUDOVICO DA (C. I540-C. 1613)
• VICTORIA [ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA]

Victoria Regia See also:

• LILY

lily . In 1841 he returned to Guiana to survey the See also:

• COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony and See also:

• FIX, THEODORE (180o-1846)

fix the boundary for the British See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

Government . The result was the provisional boundary between British Guiana and See also:

• VENEZUELA

Venezuela known as the " See also:

• SCHOMBURGK, SIR ROBERT HERMANN (1804-1865)

Schomburgk See also:

• LINE

Line," for which see the articles on those two countries . On his return to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England he was knighted . In 1848 he was appointed British See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul to St Domingo, and, in 1857, British consul to See also:

• BANGKOK

Bangkok . While holding these posts he continued his geographical surveys . He retired from the public service in 1864, and died at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin on the See also:

• LATH (0. Eng. laett, Mid. Eng. lappe, a form possibly due to the Welsh llath; the word appears in many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch lat, Ger. Latte, and has passed into Romanic, cf. Ital. latta, Fr. latte)

lath of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1865 . He was the author of a Description of British Guiana and a See also:

• HISTORY

History of Barbadoes .