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George Passman Tate,
FRGS The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...
, (1856–1941) was an
Anglo-Indian Anglo-Indian people are a distinct minority group, minority community of mixed-race British and Indian ancestry. During the colonial period, their ancestry was defined as British paternal and Indian maternal heritage; post-independence, "Angl ...
surveyor and authority on the
history of Afghanistan The history of Afghanistan covers the development of Afghanistan from ancient times to the establishment of the Emirate of Afghanistan in 1822 and Afghanistan in modern times. This history is largely shared with that of Central Asia, Iran, and ...
.


Career as Surveyor

Tate was employed as Assistant Superintendent of the
Surveyor General of India The Surveyor General of India is the Head of Department of Survey of India, a department under the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of India. The Surveyor General is also the most senior member of the Survey of India Service, ...
and was deployed to conduct critical surveys in
Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...
such as Baluch-
Afghan Afghan or Afgan may refer to: Related to Afghanistan *Afghans, historically refers to the Pashtun people. It is both an ethnicity and nationality. Ethnicity wise, it refers to the Pashtuns. In modern terms, it means both the citizens of Afghanist ...
Boundary Commission (1895‒96) and
Seistan Sistān (), also known as Sakastān (, , current name: Zabol) and Sijistan (), is a historical region in south-eastern Iran and extending across the borders of present-day south-western Afghanistan, and south-western Pakistan. Mostly correspon ...
Arbitration Mission (1903‒5). Tate (along with J.W. Newland) also conducted surveys in
Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
in 1899 to 1900 and believed to be the namesake of
Tate's Cairn Tate's Cairn or Tai Lo Shan () is a mountain in Hong Kong at in height. It is one of the peaks of the Kowloon Ridge and falls within Ma On Shan Country Park. The peak began to appear on colonial maps in the 1860s but remained unnamed until th ...
(the hill was renamed sometime after Tate's time in Hong Kong).


Personal

Born in 1856 in
Bengal Bengal ( ) is a Historical geography, historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the Eastern South Asia, eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. The region of Benga ...
, beyond his surveyor career little is known about Tate. After departing Hong Kong he worked in Afghanistan and retired in 1911, moving to Uttar Pradesh in 1913 with his wife Charlotte Leonora Still and died in Bengal in 1941. https://industrialhistoryhk.org/history-of-mapping-hong-kong-part-6-1901-the-tate-map/ He was a member of
The Asiatic Society The Asiatic Society is an organisation founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of " Oriental research" (in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions). It was founded by the philologist Will ...
and a fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...
.


Selected publications

*''The frontiers of Baluchistan: Travels on the borders of Persia and Afghanistan''. Witherby & Co., London, 1909. *''Seistan: A memoir on the history, topography, ruins, and people of the country, in four parts''. Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta, 1910-1912. *
The Kingdom of Afghanistan: A historical sketch
'. Printed by Bennett Coleman & Co., Published at the ''Times of India'' offices, Bombay & Calcutta, 1911. *''Kalat: A memoir on the country and family of the Ahmadzai Khans of Kalat &c.'' Calcutta, 1896.


References

Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society British people in colonial India 1856 births 1941 deaths {{academic-stub