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Colonel Sir Henry Trotter (30 August 1841 – 25 September 1919) was an officer in the Royal Engineers, author, and explorer of Central Asia. Trotter attended Addiscombe Military Seminary from 1858 to 1860, and was awarded his commission in the Royal Engineers, Bengal on 8 June 1860. He sailed to India in 1862, and from 1863 to 1875 served on the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. He was a member of the Second Yarkand Mission to Sinkiang to visit the territory ruled by Yakub Beg: the mission had 350 support staff and 6,476 porters, and was led by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth. Among the other Indian Army officers were Thomas E. Gordon, John Biddulph, Henry Bellew, Ferdinand Stoliczka and R. A. Champman. During the exhibition Trotter was the first recorded European to have shot an Ovis Poli. T

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  • Colonel Sir Henry Trotter (30 August 1841 – 25 September 1919) was an officer in the Royal Engineers, author, and explorer of Central Asia. Trotter attended Addiscombe Military Seminary from 1858 to 1860, and was awarded his commission in the Royal Engineers, Bengal on 8 June 1860. He sailed to India in 1862, and from 1863 to 1875 served on the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. He was a member of the Second Yarkand Mission to Sinkiang to visit the territory ruled by Yakub Beg: the mission had 350 support staff and 6,476 porters, and was led by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth. Among the other Indian Army officers were Thomas E. Gordon, John Biddulph, Henry Bellew, Ferdinand Stoliczka and R. A. Champman. During the exhibition Trotter was the first recorded European to have shot an Ovis Poli. T
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  • Colonel Sir Henry Trotter (30 August 1841 – 25 September 1919) was an officer in the Royal Engineers, author, and explorer of Central Asia. Trotter attended Addiscombe Military Seminary from 1858 to 1860, and was awarded his commission in the Royal Engineers, Bengal on 8 June 1860. He sailed to India in 1862, and from 1863 to 1875 served on the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. He was a member of the Second Yarkand Mission to Sinkiang to visit the territory ruled by Yakub Beg: the mission had 350 support staff and 6,476 porters, and was led by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth. Among the other Indian Army officers were Thomas E. Gordon, John Biddulph, Henry Bellew, Ferdinand Stoliczka and R. A. Champman. During the exhibition Trotter was the first recorded European to have shot an Ovis Poli. Trotter, now a captain, joined the special service in China in 1876 and he served as Assistant Military Attaché at Constantinople during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78; Trotter was present at the fall of Erzurum to the Russians. In 1879, now a major, he was appointed Consul for Kurdistan; and in 1880 he was appointed Consul at Erzurum. From 1882 to 1889 he served as Military Attaché at Constantinople, following which he became British Consul-General in Syria, based in Beirut On 15 October 1890 Trotter married Olivia Georgiana Trotter, daughter of Admiral George Wellesley and Elizabeth Lukin. Trotter and his wife had a daughter, Angela Olivia Trotter (1897-1981). In 1906 Trotter retired from public service and in 1907 he began to work with the Central Asian Society. He served as a Member of Council for the society and from 1917 to 1918 he was president of the society. Trotter was invested as a Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.) and Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.). Trotter died on 25 September 1919 at Lucas Green Manor, Chobham, Surrey. He was survived by his wife Olivia Georgiana Trotter, daughter Angela and Henry Alexander Trotter. In 1926 Trotter’s daughter Angela married Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick. Her son, Trotter’s grandson, was Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick.
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