Charles Thomas Marvin
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Charles Thomas Marvin (1854–1890), writer on Russia.
Marvin was born at
On 26 June Marvin was arrested, but was released on 16 July after it was found that he had committed no offence known to English law. His actions prompted a tightening of internal regulations that eventually led to the enactment in 1889 of Britain's first Official Secrets legislation.[2]
In 1878 Marvin published Our Public Offices, Embodying an Account of the Disclosure of the Anglo-Russian Agreement, and the Unrevealed Secret Treaty of 31 May 1878. During the Russo-Turkish war in 1878 he contributed to twenty publications.
In 1880 he published his first book on the Russo-Indian question, The Eye-witnesses' Account of the Disastrous Campaign against the Akhal Tekke Turcomans, which was adopted by the Russian government for the military libraries and commended by General
He died at Grosvenor House, Plumstead Common, Kent, on 4 Dec. 1890 and was buried in Plumstead new cemetery on 10 December.
Works
Besides the works already mentioned he wrote:
- ‘The Russians at Merv and Herat, and their Power of Invading India,’ 1883.
- ‘The Petroleum of the Future; Baku, the Petrolia of Europe,’ 1883.
- ‘Reconnoitering Central Asia, Pioneering Adventures in the Region lying between Russia and India,’ 1884.
- ‘The Railway Race to Herat. An Account of the Russian Railway to Herat and India,’ 1885.
- ‘Shall Russia have Penjdeh?’ 1885.
- ‘Russia's Power of Attacking India;’ tenth thousand, 1886.
- ‘The Petroleum Question. The Coming Deluge of Russian Petroleum,’ 1886.
- ‘The Petroleum Question. England as a Petroleum Power,’ 1887.
- ‘The Petroleum Question. Our unappreciated Petroleum Empire,’ 1889.
and translated Colonel Grodekoff's ‘Ride from Samarcand to Herat,’ 1880.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Marvin, Charles Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.