Claude Reignier Conder

Conder was educated at University College London and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He became a lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1870. He carried out survey work in Palestine in 1872–1874, latterly in conjunction with Lt Kitchener, later Lord Kitchener,{{cite book | title=Revealing the Holy Land: the photographic exploration of Palestine | first=Kathleen |last=Stewart Howe | publisher=University of California Press | year=1997 | isbn=0-89951-095-7 | pages=37–38}} whom he had met at school,British Empire. [https://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/africancampaigns/boerwar/kitchener.htm Kitchener] and was seconded to the Palestine Exploration Fund from 1875 to 1878 and again in 1881 and 1882, when he was promoted to captain. He retired with the rank of colonel in 1904.{{cite magazine|title=CONDER, Claude Reignier|magazine=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|page=371|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA371}}

Conder joined the expedition to Egypt in 1882, under Sir Garnet Wolseley, to suppress the rebellion of Urabi Pasha. He was appointed a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general on the staff of the intelligence department. In Egypt his perfect knowledge of Arabic and of Eastern people proved most useful. He was present at the action of Kassassin, the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, and the advance to Cairo, but then, seized with typhoid fever, he was invalided home. For his services he received the war medal with clasp for Tel el-Kebir, the Khedive's bronze star and the fourth class of the Order of the Medjidie.{{cn|date=February 2020}}

While surveying the area of Safed in July 1875, Conder and his party were attacked by local residents and Conder sustained a serious head injury which left him bedridden for a while and unable to return to Palestine.H.H. Kitchener, [https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/pefqs/1875_04_195.pdf An Account of the Safed Attack], Palestine Exploration Quarterly Statement 7.4 (Oct. 1875), pp. 195–199 The work of surveying the country of Palestine commenced again only in late February 1877, without Conder.H.H. Kitchener, [https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/pefqs/1878-04_159.pdf Survey of Galilee],Palestine Exploration Quarterly Statement (1878), pp. 159–174.

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• 1878: Tent Work in Palestine {{ISBN|1-4179-2238-9}}
• 1879: Judas Maccabæus, and the Jewish War of Independence
• 1880: Memoires: The Survey of Western and Eastern Palestine {{ISBN|1-85207-835-9}}
• 1883: Heth and Moab, Explorations in Syria in 1881 and 1882
• 1886: Syrian Stone-lore, Or, The Monumental History of Palestine
• 1887: Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions {{ISBN|1-4326-0939-4}}
• 1889: Palestine
• 1889: The Survey of Eastern Palestine, Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, Archaeology, Etc.
• 1893: The Tell Amarna Tablets
• 1896: The Bible and the East
• 1897: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
• 1898: The Hittites and their Language
• 1900: The Hebrew Tragedy
• 1902: The First Bible
• 1909: The City of Jerusalem

• Conder, Claude Reignier (1879) [https://archive.org/details/tentworkinpalest01conduoft Tent Work in Palestine], vol 1
• Conder, Claude Reignier (1879) [https://archive.org/details/tentworkinpalest02conduoft Tent Work in Palestine], vol 2
• {{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener |volume=1 |year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|oclc=5785377}} (The full text, archive.org, Can download PDF)
• {{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener |volume=2 |year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp02conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|oclc=5785377}} (The full text, archive.org, Can download PDF)
• Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): [https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp03conduoft The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology]. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 3 The full text, archive.org, Can download PDF.
• {{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Warren|first2=C.|author-link2=Charles Warren |year=1884|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00warruoft/page/n3/mode/2up|title=Jerusalem |location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|oclc=5785377}}
• {{Citation|title=Heth and Moab : explorations in Syria in 1882|last1=Conder|first1=Claude Reignier |url=https://archive.org/details/hethandmoab00conduoft |year=1885}}
• {{Citation|title=Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions|last1=Conder|first1=Claude Reignier|url=https://archive.org/details/altaichieroglyph00condrich|year=1887}}
• {{cite book|last=Conder|first=C.R.|author-link=Claude R. Conder|title=Syrian Stone-lore; or, The Monumental History of Palestine |publisher=Alexander P. Watt |year=1889|location=London|language=en|url=https://archive.org/details/syrianstoneloreo00conduoft/page/ii/mode/2up |oclc=751757461}}
• {{Citation|title=Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions|last1=Conder|first1=Claude Reignier|url=https://archive.org/details/altaichieroglyph00conduoft|year=1889}}

• {{cite journal |last=Conder|first=C.R. |author-link= |title=Notes on New Discoveries|journal=Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement |publisher=Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=41|issue=4 |pages=266–275 |year=1909|doi=10.1179/peq.1909.41.4.266 |url=https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/pefqs/1909_04_266.pdf|language=en }}
• {{cite journal |last=Conder|first=C.R. |author-link= |title=Recent Hittite Discoveries|journal=Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement |publisher=Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=42|issue=1 |pages=42–53 |year=1910|doi=10.1179/peq.1910.42.1.42 |url=https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/pefqs/1910_01_042.pdf|language=en }}
• {{cite journal |last=Conder|first=C.R. |author-link= |title=Notes and Queries|journal=Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement |publisher=Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=42|issue=1 |pages=78–80 |year=1910|doi=10.1179/peq.1910.42.1.78 |url=https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/pefqs/1910_01_078.pdf|language=en }}

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