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Reginald Schomberg
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'''Reginald Charles Francis Schomberg''' (1880-1958) was a British officer and explorer, who served in Asia.
==Family and education==
Son of Reginald Brodrick Schomberg (1848-1932) and Frances Sophia Schomberg (1839-1922), a descendant of the physician [[Meyer Low Schomberg]] (1690-1761). He was educated at the [[Oratory School]], Edgbaston, Birmingham (1892–8), then [[New College, Oxford]], where he graduated in 1901.
==Military and diplomatic career==
Schomberg served mainly in Asia. Hi military career took him to India (1902-11), Malay states guides (early 1910s), he went to Mesopotamia (1915) and Palestine (1917), Malaya (1919), India (1922), and Ladakh (1923). He retired in 1927.He also held several diplomatic posts. He was British consul-general in French establishments in India (1936-37, 1938-41); and also consul-general for Portuguese possessions in India (from 1939). He was consular liaison officer, Persia (1942–3), and customs officer, Perso-Indian frontier (1943–4). From 1944 to 1945 he was colonel in force 136 (part of the Special Operations Executive), China.
==Travels==
He made several journeys in Central Asia, in 1926, 1927-29 and 1930-31, [[Baltistan]] (137), [[Ladakh]] (1944, 1945, 1946).
==Awards and Honours==
* Royal Geographical Societys Gill memorial medal
* 1937 C.I.E.
==Publications==
1933 ''Peaks and Plains of Central Asia''
1935 ''Between the Oxus and the Indus''
1936 ''Unknown Karakorum''
1938 ''Kafirs and Glaciers''
He also wrote articles and reviews for the ''Alpine Journal'', the ''Geographical Journal'', the ''Himalayan Journal'', the ''Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society'', and the ''Scottish Geographical Journal''.
==Religious life==
From 1947 to 1951 Schomberg studied for the priesthood in Rome, and subsequently worked in England: at Ringwood, Hampshire (1952-53), the Assisi Home, Grayshot (1953-54), and the Sisters of St Joseph, Boars Hill, Oxford (1954-57).
He was buried at Belmont Abbey, Hereford.
==Source==
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
October 08, 2018 at 10:00PM
