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Everard F. Im ThurnEverard Ferdinand im Thurn (1852 - 9 October 1932) was an author, photographer, and Governor of Fiji. He was educated at Oxford University, Edinburgh University, and Sydney University. After his education he went on to become the curator of the British Guiana Museum from 1877 to 1882 and became a Stipendiary Magistrate in Pomeroon, Guyana. He then went on to become a government agent in what is now Guyana from 1891 to 1899. Thurn then went on to hold several governmental positions, including: 1st Class Clerk in the Colonial Office from 1899 to 1901, Lieutenant-Governor and Colonial Secretary of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Governor of Fiji from 1904 to 1910. Thurn was also a keen photographer and author of several books, including: Among the Indians of Guiana: being sketches, chiefly anthropologic from the interior of Brit. Guiana, etc. and Botany of Roraima Expedition. He was also President of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1919-1920 and an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College. This article contains content from HierarchyPedia article Everard F. im Thurn, used here under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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