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Authorised form of nameBurrard; Sir; Sidney Gerald (1860 - 1943)
Dates1860 - 1943
Date of birth12 August 1860
Date of death16/03/1943
ActivityCareer:
Major, RE
Honours:
CSI 1911; KCSI 1914
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1904
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 507-522, plate, by G P Lenox-Conyngham
References:
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64
Notes:
DNB is cited as a source in index to BR; but relevant entry could not be located.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/71483478
CodeNA1089
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1904/02Burrard, Sir Sidney Gerald: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/16/276Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the intensity & direction of the force of gravity in India' by Colonel Sidney Gerald Burrard29 March 1905
NLB/42/387Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, Secretary RS to Colonel S [Sidney] G [Gerald] Burrard FRS, Dehra Dun, India2 June 1910
RR/21/46Referee's report by Richard Dixon Oldham, on a paper 'On the origin of the Indo-Gangetic trough, commonly called the Himalayan foredeep' by Sidney Gerald Burrard22 September 1914
RR/21/47Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On the origin of the Indo-Gangetic trough, commonly called the Himalayan foredeep' by Sidney Gerald Burrard[October 1914]
NLB/57/313Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent 14 October 1919
NLB/65/689Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonel Sir Sidney [Gerald] Burrard, KCSI, FRS7 December 1923
NLB/62/166Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Gerald] Burrard, FRS14 December 1921
NLB/67/270Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Gerald] Burrard, FRS26 November 1924
NLB/67/432Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney Burrard, KCSI, FRS18 December 1924
NLB/35/221Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Burrard, Fellow of the Royal Society, 15 Wiltie Gardens, Folkestone 2 May 1907
NLB/50/556Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Sidney Burrard, Fellow of the Royal Society29 July 1914
RR/16/277Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'On the intensity and direction of the force of gravity in India' by Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Gerald BurrardMay 1905
RR/41/39Referee's report by John Walter Gregory, on a paper 'The geographical representation of the Mountains of Tibet' by Sidney Gerald Burrard12 April 1930
MC/19/153Letter from Sidney [George] Burrard, Trignometrical Survey Office, Dehra Dun, India, to the Royal Society26 May 1904
MC/19/154Letter from [Sidney George] Burrard, Superintendent of the Trignometrical Survey, Trignometrical Survey Office, Dehra Dun, India, to the Royal Society3 August 1904
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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