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Sidney Gerald Burrard

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He succeeded his cousin as the 7th baronet on 1933 and in 1935 he married Alice Simons but she died in 1938. He had a son and a daughter from his first marriage. The son, later Major Sir Gerald Burrard (1888 – 1965) was a specialist on firearms and was involved in the creation of the Firearms Act
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under J.B.N. Hennessey and C.T. Haig. Working with Heaviside and Strahan, he examined the causes of minute triangulation errors. These they determined by experiments as being caused by the attraction of the plumbline to the Himalayan mountains. This was further analysed by
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from 1873 where he showed his mathematical talents. In 1874 he moved to Wellington College where again he excelled at mathematics which led his father to decide that he was suited for the
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Burrard later worked at a tidal observatory on the Red Sea. In 1899 he was appointed Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey and became a Surveyor General in 1908. He was made a
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in a family of eminence, his father being Lieutenant-Colonel Sidney Burrard of the Grenadier Guards. Their home at The Mount had been built by his grandfather, The Reverend
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to the Viceroy, heard that there was a position for a young Royal Engineer who was good at mathematics and recommended Burrard's name to
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In 1887 Burrard married Gertrude Ellen the daughter of the Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey, Major-General
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He received a commission in the Royal Engineers on 6 April 1879 and trained at the
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A sketch of the geography and geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet (1907)
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of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in 1914. In 1913 he received the
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Lenox-Conyngham, G. P. (1944). "Sidney Gerald Burrard. 1860-1943".
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Depressed and with a weakening eyesight, Burrard died in 1943.
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at Chatham. He sailed to India in 1882. He joined the
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after a contemporary W.H. Pollen, who was posted as
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Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
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Index

Bt
KCSI
FRS
Surveyor General of India
Charles Henry Dudley Ryder
Isle of Wight
Farnborough, Hampshire
Uppingham School
KCSI
FRS
Surveyor General of India
Great Trigonometrical Survey
Isle of Wight
Sir George Burrard
Lymington
Uppingham School
Royal Engineers
School of Military Engineering
Bengal Sappers and Miners
Roorkee
Zhob
Baluchistan
Survey of India
Aide-de-camp
Lord Ripon
Dehra Dun
John Henry Pratt
C.T. Haig
Companion of the Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander

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