Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen

Major Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
Born	1834
Died	1923
Residence	Chilworth Manor, Guildford and 17 Bessborough-gardens, SW [1879] Shalford House, near Guildford; and Junior United Service Club [1881] Nore, Bramley, Guildford; and Junior United Service Club, Charles Street, S.W. [1885]
Occupation	geologist naturalist topographer surveyor
Society Membership membership Ordinary Fellow left 1886.10.26 resigned elected_AI 1875.12.28 clubs Junior United Service Club societies Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom Royal Society Zoological Society Royal Geographical Society British Ornithologists' Union Asiatic Society of Bengal

Notes

Office Notes

AI Council 1879 Member
AI Council 1880 Member
AI Council 1881 Member
AI Council 1882 Member
AI Council 1883 Member
AI Council 1884 Vice President
AI Council 1885 Vice President
AI Council 1886 Vice President
AI Council 1887 Member
AI Council 1888 Member

House Notes

proposed 1875.12.14
Deputy Superintendent Topographical Survey of India
Lieut. Col. in 1885 list

Notes From Elsewhere

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU (6 July 1834 – 2 December 1923), known until 1854 as Henry Haversham Austen, was an English topographer, geologist, naturalist and surveyor.

renowned British surveyor, mountaineer and supposedly one of the first British converts into Buddhism, Henry Harversham Godwin-Austen. An energetic officer in service of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, Godwin-Austen became widely known as the explorer and surveyor of the Karakorams, and as the first person to ascertain the position and height of K2 which is also known and Mount Godwin-Austen.

Publications

External Publications

Notes on the Pangong Lake District of Ladakh (1864)
Birds of Assam (1870–1878)
Land and freshwater mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burma, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malaya Peninsula, Ceylon and other islands of the Indian Ocean; Supplementary to Masers Theobald and Hanley's Conchologica Indica (Taylor and Francis, London, VI+257+ 442+65 pp., 165 pls, published in parts, 1882–1920:

“Description of a Mystic Play as performed in Ladak, Zascar &c.” in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

House Publications

On the Stone Monuments of the Khasi Hill Tribes, and on Some of the Peculiar Rites and Customs of the People 1872