biography
| name: |
Schomburgk, Sir Robert Hermann
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pronunciation:
[shomboork]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1804–65)
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| biography:
| Explorer and surveyor, born in Freyburg am der Unstrut, EC Germany. He went to the USA in 1829, and surveyed Anegada, one of the British Virgin Is (1831). Sent by the Royal Geographical Society to explore British Guiana (1835), he discovered the giant Victoria Regia lily. He was employed to draw the Schomburgk line marking the boundary of British Guiana (1841–3). Knighted on his return in 1844, he became British consul in San Domingo (1848–57) and Siam (1857–64). |
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