Lansdell, Henry

D.D. (by Archbishop of Canterbury and Queen's letters patent, 1882), Church of England; b. at Tenter den, Kent, Jan. 10, 1841; educated in the London College of Divinity, 1865-67; was ordained deacon 1867, priest 1868, curate of Green wich 1868-69; secretary to the Irish Church Mi ions, 1869-79 founder and honorary secretary of the Church Homiletical Society, 1874-86; originator and editor of The Clergyman's Magazine, 1875; curate in charge of St. Peter's, Eltham, Kent, 1885. He is a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and of the General Committee of the British A ociation for the Advancement of Science (life member, 1880); fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1876. He has not only since 1870 journeyed round the world, and with two exceptions throughout every country of Europe; but he has visited parts of Siberia, Central Asia, Bokhara, and Khiva, where no English man had preceded him. Since 1874 he has gone not only as traveller, but as amateur mi ionary, distributing tracts through Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Ru ia, 1874 Norway and Sweden, 1876; Hungary and Transylvania, 1877; tracts and Scriptures through Ru ia, 1878; Siberia, 1879; Armenia, 1880; Ru ian Central Asia, 1882. He is the author of Through Siberia, London, 1882,2 vols. 5th ed. 1883; Ru ian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva, and Merv, 1885, 2 vols.