COLQUHOUN, ARCHIBALD ROSS

(1848-1915), British explorer and administrator; b. off the Cape of Good Hope. He entered the service of the India government in the Public Works Department in 1871 and was appointed a member of the British Mi ion to Siam in 1879. A proposed railway route between Burmah and China was the occasion for his exploring the territory from Canton to Bhamo in 1881-82. Three years later he became deputy commi ioner of Upper Burmah, serving until 1889. In 1895 he explored the Nicaragua and Panama Canal routes, then revisited China, traveling from north to south, and also in Mongolia and Siberia. He became administrator of Mash on a land, South Africa, in 1900-2. His writings, which relate to his travels and administrative work, embrace works on English policy in the Far East, China, South Africa, India, and the Pacific.