Frederic Charles Danvers
Frederic Charles Danvers ComC | |
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Died | 17 May 1906 Broad Oaks, Addlestone, Surrey | (aged 72)
Occupation | Civil servant |
Frederic Charles Danvers (1833–1906), often Frederick, was a British civil servant and writer on engineering. The Superintendent of the India Office Records between 1884 and 1898, he was also a historian and wrote works on India.[1]
Life
Born at
On the creation of the India Office Danvers was, in September 1858, made a junior clerk there. Deputed in 1859 to Liverpool and Manchester to report on the fitness of traction engines for use in India, where railway construction was still in its infancy, he was transferred on account of his technical knowledge to the public works department of the India Office in 1861. He there rose to be senior clerk in June 1867, and assistant secretary in February 1875.[1] He attended the Exposition Universelle of 1867 in Paris, reporting in the Quarterly Journal of Science that other European nations were closing the technology gap with the United Kingdom.[2]
Plans by Danvers for a tunnel under the
Danvers was sent to
Danvers died on 17 May 1906 at Broad Oaks, Addlestone, Surrey, and was buried at All Saints' Church, Benhilton.[1]
Works
Danvers published History of the Portuguese in India (2 vols. 1894), an ambitious work. Sydney Ernest Fryer wrote in the Dictionary of National Biography that it "was marred by want of perspective and incomplete reference to authorities.[1]
Outside his official duties, Danvers wrote mainly on technical areas. He contributed articles on public works in India to Engineering (1866–75), and a volume "India" (1877) in the series Information for Colonial Engineers published by E. and F. N. Spon. He besides compiled memoranda on Indian coal, coal washing, and artificial fuel (1867–9), and publishing Statistical Papers relating to India (parliamentary paper, 1869), Coal Economy (1872), and A Century of Famines, 1770–1870 (1877). He read papers before the
Danvers also wrote:[1]
- Bengal, its Chiefs, Agents and Governors, 1888.
- The Second Borgian Map, 1889.
He edited Memorials of Old Haileybury College (1894), and wrote introductions to Letters received by the East India Company from its Servants in the East (1896); List of Factory Records of the late East India Company (1897); and List of Marine Records of the late East India Company (1897). The Covenant; or, Jacob's Heritage (1877) and Israel Redivivus, 1905, an endeavour to identify the
Family
Danvers married in 1860, at
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- JSTOR 4026801
- JSTOR 4305637
- JSTOR 1006664
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32709. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- JSTOR 41335899
- ^ Hastings, James; Selbie, John Alexander; Gray, Louis Herbert (1908). "Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics". Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark; New York : C. Scribner's Sons. p. 483.
- ^ Macnamara, Francis Nottidge (1895). "Memorials of the Danvers family (of Dauntsey and Culworth): their ancestors and descendants from the conquest till the termination of the eighteenth century; with some account of the alliances of the family and of the places, where they were seated". London, Hardy & Page. p. 466.
- ^ Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1917). "Visitation of England and Wales". [London] : Priv. printed. p. 6.
- ^ The Electrical Engineer. Vol. 4. 1885. p. 120.
- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929–30). Armorial Families. Vol. 1 (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 495.
External links
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Danvers, Frederic Charles". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.