16 February 1910 (1910-02-17) (aged 61) Cheltenham
Claude Reignier Conder (29 December 1848,
Cheltenham – 16 February 1910, Cheltenham) was an English soldier, explorer and antiquarian. He was a great-great-grandson of
Louis-François Roubiliac[1][2] and grandson of editor and author
Josiah Conder.[3]
Conder joined the
expedition to Egypt in 1882, under
Sir Garnet Wolseley, to suppress the
rebellion of
Urabi Pasha. He was appointed a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general on the staff of the intelligence department. In Egypt his perfect knowledge of Arabic and of Eastern people proved most useful. He was present at the action of
Kassassin, the
Battle of Tel el-Kebir, and the advance to
Cairo, but then, seized with typhoid fever, he was invalided home. For his services he received the war medal with clasp for Tel el-Kebir, the
Khedive's bronze
star and the fourth class of the
Order of the Medjidie.[citation needed]
While surveying the area of
Safed in July 1875, Conder and his party were attacked by local residents and Conder sustained a serious
head injury which left him bedridden for a while and unable to return to Palestine.[7] The work of surveying the country of Palestine commenced again only in late February 1877, without Conder.[8]
^Stewart Howe, Kathleen (1997). Revealing the Holy Land: the photographic exploration of Palestine. University of California Press. pp. 37–38.
ISBN0-89951-095-7.
^H.H. Kitchener,
Survey of Galilee,Palestine Exploration Quarterly Statement (1878), pp. 159–174.
Moscrop, John James (2000). Measuring Jerusalem: the Palestine Exploration Fund and British interests in the Holy Land. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 98–99.
ISBN0-7185-0220-5.
Yadin, Yigael (1977). Masada. La fortaleza de Herodes y el último bastión de los Zelotes. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino.
ISBN84-233-0537-6.