Mr. C. M. Doughty

Abstract

WE regret to record the death on January 20 of Mr. Charles Montagu Doughty, the famous traveller in Arabia and poet, at Sissinghurst, Kent, at eighty-two years of age. Mr. Doughty was born on August 19, 1843, at Theberton, Suffolk. He was educated at Portsmouth, and later, on failing to enter the Navy, with which he was closely connected through his mother's family, he went to King's College, London, and Caius College, Cambridge. He took his degree, however, from Downing, to which he had migrated from Caius, obtaining second-class honours in natural science (geology) in 1865. During his career as an undergraduate he had shown a taste for antiquarian exploration, which he continued after taking his degree, spending some years in travelling and study. In 1866 he published a short pamphlet on the Jöstedal-Brae glaciers of Norway, where he had spent a year as an undergraduate. In 1870 he went to Holland, where he acquired Dutch and Danish, thence to Italy, Spain, and Greece, crossing over to Palestine a year later.