O'Connor was born in 1870, Longford, Ireland,[1] son of land agent[1] Matthew Weld O'Connor, and Harriet Georgina,[7] daughter of Anthony O’Reilly, of Baltrasna, County Meath. He had a sister, Lina O'Connor, and two younger brothers Matthew O'Connor and Myles O'Connor.[8] He was educated at Charterhouse School[1][9] as a Junior Scholar, in Verites house, 1884-1887.[10][8] Member of Charterhouse shooting team in 1885, and placing 7th,[10][8] winning the House Shooting Cup in 1885.[8]
Wilkinson 1821 pattern sabre, serial number 29781 made in 1889, etched with W.F.T.O'C. initials.
He passed through the Royal Military Academy in 1888 and was gazetted to the Royal Artillery in 1890.[11] He received Henry Wilkinson sabre (number 29781) in 1889, as gift from a family member.
1899–1903 – Appointed inspecting officer of the Kashmir Imperial Service Troops, stationed at Gilgit near the border of Afghanistan and Chinese Turkmenistan.[1]
1903-04-13 Routes between Tibet and India by Captain W. F. O'Connor, Royal ArtilleryYounghusband team in 1904, O'Connor standing second from left
1904 – Employed former Sengchen Lama's personal attendant Sherab Gyatso to be his personal language teacher and suspected intelligence informant.[19]
21 May 1904 - Fought, and wounded, in battle to capture village of Pala.[20] David (born Dorje) MacDonald briefly took over O'Connor's interpreter duties during recovery.[9]
O'Connor and domestic staff at Gyantse in 1905
1905 – Posted as the first British Trade Agent at the new Trade Mart in Gyantse, under the Anglo-Tibet Convention.[1][8][9]
May 1905 – Investigated theft of remains of Younghusband mission money from boxes left at Gyantse.[9]
Frederick O'Connor (representative of English Trade in Tibet for British Raj, and secretary of Younghusband) and Thubten Chokyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama[citation needed], in a Peugeot car, one of the two first in Tibet, in 1907Peugeot in front of the Gyantse fortress in Freddie 1907
1908 – Accompanied Sikkimese Prince on world tour and also to meet 13th Dalai Lama.[9] O'Connor was the first Indian Government official to meet the Dalai Lama.[9]
9 April 1918 – Sailed from the Liverpool to New York on board the SS Carpathia.,[28] taking 11 days,[27] to meet with senior military[13] and diplomats regarding the US policy in Siberia.
3 June 1918 – Arrived in to Vladivostok[27] and served as Resident.[7]
January 1921 – Appointed political officer at Gangtok.[9]
March 1921 – Left position in Gangtok and returned to England, when mother fell seriously ill.[9]
2 February 1930 - Article in Detroit Free Press newspaper showing O'Connor leading tiger hunt in India.[31]
28 June 1931 – Article in The Indianapolis Sunday Star newspaper saying O'Connor inviting 5 Americans on tiger hunt for $100,000 ($20,000 each).[32]
30 June 1931 – Bankruptcy petition filed.[33]
29 July 1931 – Receiving Order issued on a creditor's petition.[33][6]
11:00 12 August 1931 – Date First Bankruptcy Meeting.[33]
30 October 1931 – Date of bankruptcy public examination.[33]
13 Jul 1932 – Arrived in Southampton from New York on the RMS Berengaria.16 July 1934 – Crossed border from Canada to Seattle, to go to L.A. and tour the US.[34]
Folk Tales from Tibet with Illustrations by a Tibetan Artist and Some Verses from Tibetan Love Songs, 1906.[40]
On the frontier and beyond: a record of thirty years' service, 1931[27]
Wrote music and lyrics to The Old House,[1][3] Quietide and One Hundred Years Ago, 1937.[1]
Things mortal, 1940.[8]
References
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s"The Annual Register Volume 185". 1943.
^Alex., McKay (1997). Tibet and the British Raj : the frontier cadre, 1904–1947. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 0700706275. OCLC 37390564.
^ a b"O'Connor, William Frederick Travers, Sir, 1870-1943". Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
^ a b c"(550) – Army lists > 1913–1919 – Quarterly Army Lists (First Series) 1879–1922 > 1917 > Third quarter > Volume 3 – British Military lists – National Library of Scotland". digital.nls.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
^"Obituaries". The Geographical Journal. 103 to 104: 304. 1944.
^ a b"THE BANKRUPTCY ACTS, 1914 AND 1926" (PDF). Edinburgh Gazette. 4 August 1934. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
^ a b c d eRiddick, John F. (1998). Who was who in British India. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313292329. OCLC 39045191.
^ a b c d e f g hO'Connor, Frederick (1940). Things Mortal. London: Hodder and Stoutghton Limited.
^ a b c d e f g h i j kAlex., McKay (2009). Tibet and the British Raj : the frontier cadre, 1904-1947 (2nd ed.). Dharamsala, H.P.: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. ISBN 9788186470923. OCLC 435961312.
^ a bCharterhouse register, 1872-1900. RareBooksClub.com. 2012. ISBN 978-1236288783.
^"The London Gazette 25th February 1890".
^"London Gazette 4th April 1893".
^ a b c dNewton, David (2009). Kipling's Canadian : Colonel Fraser Hunter, MPP, maverick soldier-surveyor in "the Great Game". Victoria, BC: Trafford. ISBN 9781425191412. OCLC 606116081.
^"WO 100. Royal Artillery, Miscellaneous". The National Archives. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
^"The London Gazette 12th December 1905".
^"Frederick O'Connor (biographical details)". cosmos.ucc.ie. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
^Allen, Charles (2004). Duel in the snows : the true story of the Younghusband mission to Lhasa. London: John Murray. ISBN 0719554276. OCLC 53709120.
^"WO 100. Under Army Order 26 of 1905: Clasp Gyantse : Staff and miscellaneous units of..." The National Archives. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
^McKay, Alex (2002). "The Drowning of Lama Sengchen Kyabying: A Preliminary Enquiry from British Sources". In Blezer, Henk; Zadoks, Abel (eds.). Tibet: Past and Present. Tibetan Studies I. Leiden: Brill. pp. 270–271. ISBN 9004127755. OCLC 52449349.
^Landon, Perceval (2000). Lhasa : an account of the country and people of Central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by the English Government in the year 1903-4. Varanasi: Pilgrims. ISBN 8177690574. OCLC 647450672.
^ a bBell, Gertrude Lowthian (13 August 2014). Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe (ed.). Gertrude Bell : complete letters. Volume I and II. CreateSpace. ISBN 9781500826901. OCLC 967604643.
^"Images of First Cars to Cross the Himalayas into Tibet 102 Years Ago and Secret Photos of Japan from 1898 for Sale".
^"Bonhams : TIBET Album, likely to have belonged an army mechanic responsible for the first motor cars Tibet". www.bonhams.com. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
^"London Gazette 10 April 1908".
^"London Gazette 15 October 1909".
^"The London Gazette 19 May 1916".
^ a b c dO'Connor, Frederick (1931). On the frontier and beyond: a record of thirty years' service. London: John Murray.
^US Department of Labor Immigration Service, Form 500, 1918-04-09
^"TREATY SERIES NO. 31 ( 1925). TREATY BETWEKS UNITED KINGDOM AND NEPAL TOGETHER WITH Note respecting the Importation of Arms and Ammunition into Nepal" (PDF).
^"The London Gazette 16th December 1904".
^"Tiger Hunting in India". Detroit Free Press. 2 February 1930.
^"The Indianapolis Sunday Star". 28 June 1931.
^ a b c d"The London Gazette – 31st July 1931".
^US Department of Labor Immigration Service, Form 54S, 1934-07-16
^O'Connor, W. F. (1900). Routes in Sikkim. India: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.
^"William Frederick Travers O'Connor - Wikisource, the free online library". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
^Martin, Emma (21 July 2016). "Translating Tibet in the Borderlands: Networks, Dictionaries, and Knowledge Production in Himalayan Hill Stations". Transcultural Studies. No 1 (1): 86–120. doi:10.17885/heiup.ts.23538. ISSN 2191-6411. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
^William Jones (1962). Journal Of The Asiatic Society 1961 Vol Iii.
^O'Connor, Frederick (1905). Lhasa: an account of the country and people of Central Tibet.
^Connor, W. F (1906). Folk Tales from Tibet with Illustrations by a Tibetan Artist and Some Verses from Tibetan Love Songs. London: Hurst and Blackett.
External links
Works by William Frederick Travers O'Connor at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)