Claude Reignier Conder (29 December 1848,

Cheltenham Cheltenham (), also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Cheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort, following the discovery of mineral s ...

– 16 February 1910, Cheltenham) was an English soldier, explorer and antiquarian. He was a great-great-grandson of Louis-François Roubiliac and grandson of editor and author Josiah Conder. Conder was educated at University College London and the

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Sig ...

. He became a lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1870. He carried out survey work in

Palestine __NOTOC__ Palestine may refer to: * State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia * Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia * Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...

in 1872–1874, latterly in conjunction with Lt Kitchener, later Lord Kitchener, whom he had met at school, and was seconded to the

Palestine Exploration Fund The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London. It was founded in 1865, shortly after the completion of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, and is the oldest known organization in the world created specifically for the study ...

from 1875 to 1878 and again in 1881 and 1882, when he was promoted captain. He retired with the rank of colonel in 1904. Conder joined the expedition to Egypt in 1882, under

Sir Garnet Wolseley Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, (4 June 183325 March 1913), was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes in Canada, We ...

, to suppress the

rebellion Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order. It refers to the open resistance against the orders of an established authority. A rebellion originates from a sentiment of indignation and disapproval of a situation and ...

Arabi Pasha Arabi may refer to: * Ibn Arabi (1165–1240), early medieval Muslim mystic and philosopher * Arabi (sheep) *Arabi, Iran (disambiguation), villages in Iran *Arabi, Ethiopia *Arabi, Georgia, United States * Ahmed ‘Urabi, a 19th-century Egyptian re ...

. He was appointed a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general on the staff of the intelligence department. In Egypt his perfect knowledge of Arabic and of Eastern people proved most useful. He was present at the action of Kassassin, the

Battle of Tel el-Kebir The Battle of Tel El Kebir (often spelled Tel-El-Kebir) was fought on 13 September 1882 at Tell El Kebir in Egypt, 110 km north-north-east of Cairo. An entrenched Egyptian force under the command of Ahmed ʻUrabi was defeated by a British ...

, and the advance to Cairo, but then, seized with typhoid fever, he was invalided home. For his services he received the war medal with clasp for Tel el-Kebir, the

Khedive Khedive (, ota, خدیو, hıdiv; ar, خديوي, khudaywī) was an honorific title of Persian origin used for the sultans and grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire, but most famously for the viceroy of Egypt from 1805 to 1914.Adam Mestyan"Kh ...

's bronze

star A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by its gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked ...

and the fourth class of the Order of the Medjidie. While surveying the area of

Safed Safed (known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardi Hebrew, Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation, Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), i ...

in July 1875, Conder and his party were attacked by local residents and Conder sustained a serious head injury which left him bedridden for a while and unable to return to Palestine. The work of surveying the country of Palestine commenced again only in late February 1877, without Conder.H.H. Kitchener
Survey of Galilee
''Palestine Exploration Quarterly Statement'' (1878), pp. 159–174. Claude Reignier Conder

Publications

* 1878: ''Tent Work in Palestine'' * 1879: ''Judas Maccabæus, and the Jewish War of Independence'' * 1880: ''Memoires: The Survey of Western and Eastern Palestine'' * 1883: ''Heth and Moab, Explorations in Syria in 1881 and 1882'' * 1886: ''Syrian Stone-lore, Or, The Monumental History of Palestine'' * 1887: ''Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions'' * 1889: ''Palestine'' * 1889: ''The Survey of Eastern Palestine, Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, Archaeology, Etc.'' * 1893: ''The Tell Amarna Tablets'' * 1896: ''The Bible and the East'' * 1897: ''The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem'' * 1898: ''The Hittites and their Language'' * 1900: ''The Hebrew Tragedy'' * 1902: ''The First Bible'' * 1909: ''The City of Jerusalem''

Books (with online access)

*Conder, Claude Reignier (1879)
Tent Work in Palestine
', vol 1 *Conder, Claude Reignier (1879)
Tent Work in Palestine
', vol 2 * (The full text, archive.org, Can download PDF) * (The full text, archive.org, Can download PDF) *Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881):
The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology
'' London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 3 The full text, archive.org, Can download PDF. * * * * *

Articles (with online access)

* * *

References

* *

External links

* * *
Profile
at PEF website
Claude Reignier Conder
at

Find a Grave Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com. Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present fin ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Conder, Claude Reignier 1848 births 1910 deaths English explorers Royal Engineers officers People from Cheltenham Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich Alumni of University College London Palestinologists Historical geographers