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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell CIE FRS FLS FZS (5 March 1880 – 11 February 1964) was a British military doctor who served with the Indian Medical Service and an amateur naturalist, editor of ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma'' 1933-1963.〔‘SEWELL, Lieut-Colonel Robert Beresford Seymour’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 (accessed 30 May 2011 )〕 Sewell was born in 1880 in Leamington, Warwickshire. His father was the reverend Arthur Sewell, and his mother was Mary Lee (née Waring).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/e3f9bdd6-32bc-40ce-b4c8-f75e2dc8025a )〕 His grandfather was Robert Burleigh Sewell (1810–1872), who had a number of notable siblings, including Richard Clarke Sewell (1803–1864), William Sewell (1804–1874), Henry Sewell (1807–1879), James Edwards Sewell (1810–1903), and Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906). He studied at Cambridge (Christ's College) and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He received a B.A. (Hons) from Cambridge in 1902 and qualified M.C.R.S & L.R.C.P. in 1907. He was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service as a Lieutenant 1 February 1908 and was promoted Captain 1 February 1911. He served during the First World War and was Mentioned in Dispatches in the London Gazette 6 July 1917. He was promoted Major 1 August 1919 and Lieutenant-Colonel 1 August 1927.〔Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 by D. G. Crawford〕 His last appointment was as Director of the Zoological Survey of India from 17 July 1925 to his retirement.〔Indian Army List January 1931〕 He retired 5 March 1935.〔Indian Army List January 1939 War services volume〕 == References == 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「R. B. Seymour Sewell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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