Lieutenant Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion CIE (16 December 1866 - 26 March 1942) was an officer in the

British Indian Army The British Indian Army, commonly referred to as the Indian Army, was the main military of the British Raj before its dissolution in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of the British Indian Empire, including the princely states, which co ...

and

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. Educated at

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and at

Repton School Repton School is a 13–18 Mixed-sex education, co-educational, Independent school (United Kingdom), independent, Day school, day and boarding school in the English Public school (United Kingdom), public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, ...

, he was first commissioned in 1887, entered the

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in 1890 and joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893, serving in

Kashmir Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...

Gilgit Gilgit (; Shina: ; ur, ) is the capital city of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. The city is located in a broad valley near the confluence of the Gilgit River and the Hunza River. It is a major tourist destination in Pakistan, serving as a h ...

and

Leh Leh () ( lbj, ) is the joint capital and largest city of Ladakh, a union territory of India. Leh, located in the Leh district, was also the historical capital of the Kingdom of Ladakh, the seat of which was in the Leh Palace, the former res ...

.Curzon Collection: Views of the North-West Frontier and the Gilgit-Chitral Frontier.

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. In 1907 Kennion was appointed

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for the Districts of

Seistan Sistān ( fa, سیستان), known in ancient times as Sakastān ( fa, سَكاستان, "the land of the Saka"), is a historical and geographical region in present-day Eastern Iran ( Sistan and Baluchestan Province) and Southern Afghanistan (N ...

and Kain in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. In 1915 the then Lt. Colonel Kennion was appointed the Consul for Arabistan at

Kermanshah Kermanshah ( fa, کرمانشاه, Kermânšâh ), also known as Kermashan (; romanized: Kirmaşan), is the capital of Kermanshah Province, located from Tehran in the western part of Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population is 946,68 ...

. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the London Gazette of 1 January 1918 for meritorious service in connection with the war He retired on 9 April 1922.Supplement to the Indian Army List January 1930 and died in

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in 1942. In addition to his service, he was the author of several books about his travels in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and the surrounding countries. Kennion's correspondence papers with Lord Hardinge are recorded in the

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Kennion, Roger Lloyd (1866-1942) Lieutenant Colonel Colonial Administrator
National Register of Archives Kennion and his wife Marion had a daughter, Iris Alice (b. 1901 d. 1977).
The Peerage. Site accessed 24 June 2012.

List of Publications

Sport and life in the further Himalaya.

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: W. Blackwood, 1910.
By Mountain, lake, and plain : being sketches of sport in eastern Persia.
Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood, 1911.

Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1932.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kennion, Roger Lloyd British Indian Army officers People educated at Monkton Combe School People educated at Repton School Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire British travel writers Explorers of Central Asia 1866 births 1942 deaths British people in colonial India