HOLDICH, SIR THOMAS HUNGERFORD (1843 1929), K.C.M.G. (1902), K.C.I.E. (1897), was born at Dingley, Northants, on Feb. 13, 1843. In 1862 he passed out of Woolwich into the Royal Engineers. He served with the Bhutan Expedition (1865), in Abyssinia (1867), in the Afghan War (1878-188o), and on many frontier commissions, being promoted brevet-colonel in 1891. In 1892, he was appointed superintendent of the fron tier surveys in India, holding this post until 1898. He acted as H.M. commissioner for the Perso-Baluch boundary in 1896, and for the Argentine-Chile boundary in 1902-1903. He was for two years president of the Royal Geographical Society (1916 1918). He died on Nov. 2, 1929.
His publications include: The Indian Borderland (19o1) ; The Coun tries of the King's Award (19o4) ; India (19o4) ; Tibet (1906) ; The Gates of India (19o9) ; Political Frontiers and Boundary Making (1916) ; Boundaries in Europe and the Near East (1918).