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[[File:Colonel Thomas Holdich.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Colonel Thomas Holdich.]]
 
[[Colonel]] '''Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|KCIE|CB|FRGS}} (13 February 1843 – 2 November 1929) was an [[England|English]] geographer and president of the [[Royal Geographical Society]]. He is best known as Superintendent of Frontier Surveys in [[British India]] and author of numerous books, including ''The Gates of India'', ''The Countries of the King's Award'' and ''Political Frontiers and Boundary Making''.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Thomas Holdich – A Maker of Frontiers |work=[[The Times]] |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date=4 November 1929 |page=14 }}</ref>
 
==Life==
Born in [[Dingley, Northamptonshire|Dingley]], [[Northamptonshire]], [[England]] to the Rev. Thomas Peach Holdich, he was educated at [[Godolphin and Latymer School|Godolphin Grammar School]] and the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich|Royal Military Academy]], obtaining a commission in the [[Royal Engineers]] in 1862. He saw active service in the [[Bhutan]] expedition of 1865, the [[1868 Expedition to Abyssinia|Abyssinian campaign of 1867-68]] and the [[Second Afghan War]] of 1878–79.
 
During peacetime, heHoldich was largely occupied with the survey of India, and served on the Afghan Boundary Commission of 1884–86, the Tasmar Boundary Commission of 1894, the Pamir Boundary Commission of 1895 and the Perso-Baluchistan Boundary Commission of 1896. He was also engaged in [http://legal.un.org/riaa/cases/vol_IX/37-49.pdf ''The Cordillera of the Andes Boundary Case''] by the governments of [[Argentina]] and [[Chile]] in 1902 to define the boundary along the [[Andes| Andes Mountains]]. He was awarded the [[Gold Medal (RGS)|Founder's Gold Medal]] of the [[Royal Geographical Society]] in 1887 in recognition of his work on the Afghan frontier.
 
On his retirement to half-pay in 1898, he thanked "that providence which had been good to me in that during that last year of my Indian career I had been able to put a round finish on the last of our frontier maps". He was placed on the Retired list with an Indian pension 13 February 1900.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27167|page=1173| date=20 February 1900}}</ref>
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and Co., 1916 p.2.</ref></blockquote>
 
Sir Thomas was married to Ada Vanrenen, and had two daughters and two sons. HeHoldich died in 1929 at his home at Parklands in [[Merrow, Surrey]], near [[Guildford]], at the age of 86.
 
==List of publications==
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* T H Holdich. ''Notes on the Antiquities, Ethnography and History of Las Bela and Makran'', 1894.
* {{cite book |ref=harv|title=The Empire and the century |publisher=John Murray |location=London |pages=651–662 |chapter=[[s:The Empire and the century/The Frontier Question|The Frontier Question]]|year=1905}}
 
==Family==
Holdich was married to Ada Vanrenen, and had two daughters and two sons.
 
==References==
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