Claude Reignier Conder (29 December 1848 – 16 February 1910) was an English soldier, explorer and antiquarian. He was a great-great-grandson of Louis-François Roubiliac[1][2] and grandson of editor and author Josiah Conder.[3]
While surveying the area of Safed in July 1875, Conder and his party were attacked by local residents and Conder sustained a serious head injury which left him bedridden for a while and unable to return to Palestine.[7] The work of surveying the country of Palestine commenced again only in late February 1877, without Conder.[8]
Conder joined the expedition to Egypt in 1882 under Sir Garnet Wolseley to suppress the rebellionofUrabi Pasha. He was appointed a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general on the staff of the intelligence department. In Egypt his perfect knowledge of Arabic and of Eastern people proved most useful. He was present at the action of Kassassin, the Battle of Tell El Kebir, and the advance to Cairo, but then, seized with typhoid fever, he was sent home. For his services he received the war medal with clasp for Tel el-Kebir, the Khedive's bronze star and the fourth class of the Order of the Medjidie.[citation needed]
^Stewart Howe, Kathleen (1997). Revealing the Holy Land: the photographic exploration of Palestine. University of California Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN0-89951-095-7.
^H.H. Kitchener, Survey of Galilee,Palestine Exploration Quarterly Statement (1878), pp. 159–174.
Moscrop, John James (2000). Measuring Jerusalem: the Palestine Exploration Fund and British interests in the Holy Land. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 98–99. ISBN0-7185-0220-5.
Yadin, Yigael (1977). Masada. La fortaleza de Herodes y el último bastión de los Zelotes. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino. ISBN84-233-0537-6.
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