Conyngham, Sir Gerald Ponsonby Lenox -, 1866-1956 (Knight, Colonel and geodesist)

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1866 - 1956

Biography

Sir Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham (1866-1956), joined the Royal Engineers and was posted in 1889 to the Trigonometrical Section of the Survey of India. His work in gravity measurements using a pendulum apparatus was an important contribution to early geodesy. He was knighted in 1919, and left India in 1920. In 1921 he became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1922 Reader in Geodesy, running a new School virtually single-handed. With the support of the Darwin family, the School of Geodesy became the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics in 1931. Lenox-Conyngham retired in 1947, aged 81.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

File

A photographic album entitled ''A Souvenir of a Journey to Japan'' given by the Lenox-Conygham's to the Hopkins's as a Christmas gift, 1875-1926 (album 1926; postcard late 19th-early 20th century)

File

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7620/6/27B

Scope and Contents

Photographs of sea voyage in 1926 to Japan via Marseilles, Naples, Port Said, the Red Sea, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Images show ships, coastlines, passengers, the Lennox-Conyham's, and street scenes and residents in places visited, . A photographic Christmas postcard of a child on a windsor chair, signed JS, is enclosed.

Dates: 1875-1926 (album 1926; postcard late 19th-early 20th century)

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of Frederick Gowland Hopkins / Material generated by personal and family matters

Fonds

Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham: Correspondence and Papers

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9249

Scope and Contents Most of the present collection dates from Lenox-Conyngham's years in Cambridge, but, the diaries apart, many items look back on his service with the Survey of India. The extensive correspondence with Burrard presents many new insights into the workings of the Survey, and the personalities of its senior officers, while that with R. H. Phillimore illustrates the many difficulties Phillimore encountered in compiling and publishing, in newly independent India, his massive History of the...

Dates: 1881-1957 (Circa)

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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