Everard im Thurn
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Sir Everard Ferdinand im Thurn KCMG, KBE, CB |
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| Acting Governor of British Ceylon | |
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In office 19 November 1903 – 3 December 1903 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Preceded by | Joseph West Ridgeway |
| Succeeded by | Henry Arthur Blake |
| 7th High Commissioner for the Western Pacific | |
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In office 11 October 1904 – 21 February 1911 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII, George V |
| Preceded by | Sir Henry Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Sir Francis May |
| 8th Governor of Fiji | |
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In office 11 October 1904 – 21 February 1911 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Henry Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Sir Francis May |
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| Born | 1852 |
| Died | 9 October 1932 (aged 79–80) |
| Spouse(s) | Hannah C. Lorimer |
Sir Everard Ferdinand im Thurn, KCMG, KBE, CB (9 May 1852 – 9 October 1932) was an author, explorer, botanist, photographer and British colonial administrator. He was Governor of Fiji 1904–1910.
Im Thurn was born in London, the son of a Swiss immigrant banker, and educated at Marlborough College, Oxford University, Edinburgh University, and Sydney University. His first book, dedicated to his headmaster, was a study of The Birds of Marlborough (1870).
After his education, im Thurn travelled to British Guiana—called Guyana since its independence from Great Britain—to become (at the age of 25) Curator of the British Guiana Museum from 1877 until 1882. He later became a Stipendiary Magistrate in Pomeroon.
In December 1884 he led the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Roraima, in Venezuela's Gran Sabana region, along with Harry Perkins, an Assistant Crown Surveyor who was also living in British Guiana. He was a keen photographer and author of several works related to his expedition to Roraima, which were published in scientific journals, including: "The Botany of Roraima Expedition of 1884: being notes on the plants observed; with a list of the species collected, and determinations of those that are new" (Linnean Society, 1887), and "Among the Indians of Guiana: being sketches, chiefly anthropologic from the interior of British Guiana, etc.", which includes detailed observations of the Pemon Indians of Venezuela. Im Thurn went on to become a government agent in British Guiana from 1891 to 1899, and was employed on the Venezuelan boundary commission 1897–99, for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1900.
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