Person PX8720 Carruthers; Alexander Douglas Mitchell (fl.1882-1962); Explorer Carruthers Alexander Douglas Mitchell fl.1882-1962 Explorer Carruthers; Douglas

Holbrook Rectory, Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Carruthers was educated at Haileybury College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked as secretary to a number of people active at the Royal Geographical Society, and underwent training in land survey work, also becoming an expert taxidermist. Aged 23, Carruthers took part in the British Museum expedition to Ruwenzori in the Congo, 1905–1906 and sent home specimens of birds and mammals. He later joined John H Miller and Morgan Philips Price in an expedition through the desert of Outer Mongolia, publishing two volumes on Unknown Mongolia in 1913. During the First World War Carruthers was employed mainly at the War Office compiling maps of the Middle East; his later career consisted largely of map making and working with explorers and travellers. In 1910 Carruthers was awarded the Gill memorial, and in 1912 the Patron's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, which he was to serve as Honorary Secretary from 1916 to 1921 and as a Fellow from 1909 to 1962. In 1956 Carruthers was awarded the Sykes medal of the Royal Central Asian Society. Tring correspondent International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes Lornc 29/05/2012 Cja833 30/08/2012 4d917671-8543-4ccd-b2b5-f68b1e70f772