About: Athelstan Cornish-Bowden

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Athelstan Hall Cornish-Bowden was a land surveyor active in South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cornish-Bowden was the seventh of the 12 children of Admiral William Bowden and Elizabeth Anne Cornish. He attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown where he studied in the land survey department, he passed the Survey Certificate examination of the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1894. In 1896 he passed the survey examination set by the surveyor-general's office and was admitted to practice as a government land surveyor in the Cape Colony. In January 1903 he was appointed second assistant surveyor-general. He became acting surveyor-general in December 1904, following the death of surveyor-general C.H.L. Max Jurisch, and was appointed surveyor-general of the colony on 1 January 1

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  • Athelstan Hall Cornish-Bowden was a land surveyor active in South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cornish-Bowden was the seventh of the 12 children of Admiral William Bowden and Elizabeth Anne Cornish. He attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown where he studied in the land survey department, he passed the Survey Certificate examination of the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1894. In 1896 he passed the survey examination set by the surveyor-general's office and was admitted to practice as a government land surveyor in the Cape Colony. In January 1903 he was appointed second assistant surveyor-general. He became acting surveyor-general in December 1904, following the death of surveyor-general C.H.L. Max Jurisch, and was appointed surveyor-general of the colony on 1 January 1906. Cornish-Bowden was president of the Institute of Government Land Surveyors of the Cape of Good Hope from 1905 to 1909. He became a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1905 and at the joint meeting of that association and its South African counterpart held in South Africa in 1905 was one of the secretaries of the British Association's Section E (Geography). That same year he became a member of the South African Philosophical Society and remained a member for some time after it became the Royal Society of South Africa in 1908. (en)
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  • Newton Abbot, Devon, England (en)
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  • Somerset West, Cape Province, South Africa (en)
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  • Athelstan Hall Cornish-Bowden was a land surveyor active in South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cornish-Bowden was the seventh of the 12 children of Admiral William Bowden and Elizabeth Anne Cornish. He attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown where he studied in the land survey department, he passed the Survey Certificate examination of the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1894. In 1896 he passed the survey examination set by the surveyor-general's office and was admitted to practice as a government land surveyor in the Cape Colony. In January 1903 he was appointed second assistant surveyor-general. He became acting surveyor-general in December 1904, following the death of surveyor-general C.H.L. Max Jurisch, and was appointed surveyor-general of the colony on 1 January 1 (en)
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