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Authorised form of nameAuldjo; John (1805 - 1886); explorer and alpinist
Dates1805 - 1886
Place of birthMontreal, Canada
Date of birth1805
Place of deathRue des Alpes, Geneva, Switzerland
Date of death06 May 1886
DatesAndPlacesBurial: the Chatelaine cemetery, Geneva
OccupationEngraver; author
Research fieldGeology
ActivityEducation:
Attwood's School, Hammersmith; pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not take a degree
Career:
Admitted to Lincoln's Inn (1827); one of the earliest climbers to ascend Mont Blanc 91827); moved to Naples, climbed Mount Vesuvius (1831; travelled to Greece and Turkey (1833); lived in Geneva at the end of his life, with his wife and two daughters, where he became acting British Consul (1870-1871) and unpaid consul (1872-1886)
Freemason, initiated 25 October 1826 at Lodge of Antiquity No 2 London
Memberships:
FGS; FSS; FRGS; Corresponding Fellow, Societa Reale Borbonico; Corresponding Fellow, Accademia Pontaneana, Naples
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1840
RelationshipsMarried in 1860 Caroline Hayden Hammet in Paris, had 2 daughters, born 1861 and 1865
PublishedWorks'Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc on the 8th and 9th August 1827' (London: Longman, 1828); Sketches of Vesuvius with short accounts of its principle eruptions from the commencement of the Christian era to the present time' (Naples, 1832)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
'Freemasons and the Royal Society: Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were also Masons' Library and Museum of Freemqasonry, 2010, page 5-6
Notes:
Listed as defaulter on PL 1861
CodeNA7049
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1840/16Auldjo, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/000163Auldjo, John2001
IM/000162Auldjo, Johnnd
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