An English geographer of great distinction, Sir Thomas Hungerford
Holdich (1843 1929) is best remembered as Superintendent of
Frontier Surveys in British India. He served on a number of
boundary commissions including the one on Afghanistan that settled
the country's border with British India in 1884 6. He was also
invited by the governments of Argentina and Chile in 1892 to define
their boundary along the Andes Mountains. Holdich wrote and
lectured extensively on geographical issues in the later part of
his life. In 1887 his work on the Afghan frontier received the Gold
Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (of which he was President
from 1917 to 1919). This work of 1901 describes the geography and
border disputes of the north-west frontier, including the Second
Anglo-Afghan War, in which Holdich himself fought. The book also
contains illustrations, and an appendix that provides a short
history of Afghanistan.
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