Philip Maud
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
8 August 1870
_with_Blackheath_F.C._in_1895.png) With Blackheath F.C. in 1895 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Philip Maud 8 August 1870 Sudbury, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Died | 28 February 1947 (aged 76) Chelsea, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | army surveyor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brigadier General Philip Maud CMG, CBE (8 August 1870 – 28 February 1947)[1] was an English officer of the British Army, who is most notable for setting the Maud Line, an imaginary border in Kenya, which set the original position of the disputed Ilemi Triangle. Maud is also celebrated in the field of rugby union playing international rugby for England, and in the 1890/91 season became one of the original members of the Barbarians Football Club.
Maud was the son of Reverend Landon Maud. In 1907, he married Dorothy Louisa Braithwaite, sister of Lilian Braithwaite.
Ilemi Triangle
While a member of the British Army's Royal Engineers corps, Maud was stationed in British East Africa in the early part of the 20th century. During this period Menelik II of Ethiopia declared the border of Ethiopia to the southern tip of Lake Turkana, which the British Empire saw as an encroachment on the territory of northern British East Africa.[2] Maud was dispatched as part of an expedition, organised by Archibald Butter, to survey the region and return information to allow Sir John Harrington to enter discussions with the Ethiopian Empire.[3] In 1902–03, Maud delimited an imaginary line from Lake Chew Bahir to the northern point of Lake Turkana, which became known as the Maud Line. The Maud Line became a recognised border in 1907 and the nationally accepted border between Sudan and Kenya in 1914.[4]
In 1904, Maud addressed the National Geographic Society with his notes on his time in British East Africa spent in the area. His paper, Exploration of the Southern Borderland of Abyssinia, was a notable paper of the anthropology of the region, and was referenced by books, such as Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough.[5]
A portrait of Maud by Elliott & Fry, is held at the National Portrait Gallery.[6]
