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Richard Hingston : ウィキペディア英語版 | Richard Hingston Major Richard William George Hingston ( 1887 - 5 August 1966) Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, was a physician, explorer and naturalist.〔Anon (1966) Obituary: Major Richard William George Hingston, M.C. The Geographical Journal 132(4):598〕 ==Early life== Richard William George Hingston, son of the Rev. R. E. H. Hingston, Felhampton,Merton, was born in 1887. Most of his early life was spent in the family home at Horsehead in Passage West County Cork. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at University College Cork. He graduated from the National University of Ireland with first-class honours in 1910, and almost immediately obtained a position in the Indian Medical Service. He secured second place in the I.M.S. examination, among the eminent group which included T. A. Hughes, the physiologist,Clive Newcomb, the research chemist,and Henry Shortt, the parasitologist. In 1913 he was seconded from military duty as naturalist to the Indo-Russian Pamir triangulation expedition. In 1914 he went on war service and saw action in East Africa,France, Mesopotamia, and the N.W. Frontier,gaining two mentions in dispatches and the Military Cross for gallantry in action.
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