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Colonel Henry Wemyss Feilden, CB (6 October 1838 – 8 June 1921) was a British Army officer, Arctic explorer and naturalist. ==Biography== Feilden was the second son of Sir William Henry Feilden (1812−1879), 2nd Baronet of Feniscowles. He was educated at Cheltenham College. After joining the Black Watch,〔(Royal Geographic Society biography and collection )〕 at the age of nineteen, he fought in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny 1857-58 and at the Taku Forts in China in 1860.〔〔 He also volunteered on the side of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War of 1862−1865,〔(Norfolk Museums biography of Feilden )〕 serving as assistant adjutant-general, and surrendering after the last battle of the war, with the remnant of the Army of Tennessee under General J. E. Johnston to General Sherman.〔 He then returned to the British Army, where he made captain in the Royal Artillery in 1874. He served in the First Boer War in 1881 and again in Africa in 1890. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War, he was again appointed Paymaster of Imperial Yeomanry on 3 February 1900. He was decorated for his service in India, China and South Africa, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for his services to Imperial Yeomanry in 1900.〔"Obituary - Henry Wemyss Feilden", in ''Ibis'' 63, Issue 4, pp. 726−732 〕 Feilden also collected information on the geology, flora and fauna of newly explored areas, and served as naturalist on Sir George Nares' Northern Polar Expedition in 1875 on board Alert. He was a fast friend of the famous writer and poet Rudyard Kipling.〔 In 1864, Feilden married Julia, daughter of Judge David James McCord (1797–1855) of South Carolina.〔 In 1880 Feilden settled in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Feilden joined the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society in 1880 and became President in 1885. He lived in Norfolk for over 20 years, moving to Burwash, Sussex in 1902. Feilden contributed to ''Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society'' and submitted scientific papers to ''The Zoologist'' and ''Ibis'' (the journal of the British Ornithologists' Union, to which he was elected in 1873), amongst others.〔 In 1895 and 1897, accompanying Henry J. Pearson, Feilden partook in expeditions to Novaya Zemlya, Kolguyev, Spitsbergen, Lapland and the Kara Sea.〔 As well as being a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Feilden was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, but was rejected. The following is from his nomination certificate: Feilden died at his home in Burwash in 1921, aged 83, about one year after his wife Julia McCord Feilden (1837–1920).〔(South Carolina Women, The South Carolina Historical Society ) Julia McCord Feilden was the daughter of the South Carolina author Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (1810–1879),〕 He had no children.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Wemyss Feilden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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