John Henry Rivett-Carnac
| John Henry Rivett-Carnac CIE, FSA, MRAS, FGS &c | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1839 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1923 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
Simlah India [1870] Allahabad, India c/o Messrs Forbes and Co., 12 Leadenhall Street, EC [1872] Ghazipur, India; c/o Messrs Henry S. King and Co. [1879] Benares, India; c/o Messrs Henry S. King and Co. [1888] | ||||||||||
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armed services civil service | ||||||||||
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(Rivett-Carnac, John Henry, 1839-1923)
In accordance with the family tradition of the Rivetts he spent most of his life in India, where he had a very distinguished career, in both civil and military capacities. In addition to his public life in the Indian Civil Service, he had many private hobbies of a more purely intellectual nature, in any of which he would have obtained eminence had it held his somewhat over-versatile attention for longer than a few years at a time. One of the practical results of his interest in archaeology is the possession of several valuable coins by the British Museum, a gift from him. The latter part of his life, practically since his retirement, he spent in Switzerland, where he did valuable work during the War for British prisoners. His death has deprived us of one of those all too rare combinations of personal charm and practical ability. [The Spectator 18 May 1923]
