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Famous Writer & Traveller
Americana: Co. Waterford: Villiers-Stuart, of Dromana, Adventure Amidst The Equatorial Forest and Rivers of South America; also in the West Indies and the Wilds of Florida. To which is added 'Jamaica Revisited' Tall 8vo Lond. (J. Murray) 1891. First Edn., Fold. maps & plts. complete, (1 map slightly frayed & stained at edge of fold.) orig. gilt decor. publishers blue cloth. V. good copy. (1)
* Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart born 1827, was solider, clergyman, politician, Egyptologist, and author. He became High Sheriff for Co. Waterford. He was a member of The Egypt Exploration Fund and first visited Egypt in 1849, and then again in 1858/59. The above was published after a further visit in 1883. He noted with alarm the damage done to the various sites he had last visited 1879. His reports were published as a Parliamentary Blue Book. He died in October 1895 as a result of a boating accident on River Blackwater, Co. Waterford.
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