Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1918 New Year Honours, at which time he was Vice-Chairman of the King George and Queen Mary's Club for Overseas Forces. He was a well-respected figure in the scientific circles of his time. Whilst in Ceylon he served as President of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1902 to 1904. He was later elected President of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1919–1920 and made an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. In 1895 he married Hannah C. Lorimer, daughter of Professor James Lorimer, of the University of Edinburgh. In 1921 they moved to live at Cockenzie House in East Lothian, where he died in 1932. In 1886, he was honoured by English botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley, who named a genus of plants from tropical South America after him. The genus of Everardia (is in the family Cyperaceae). References This article contains content from the defunct wiki, Hierarchypedia, used here under the GNU Free Documentation License. Im Thurn, E.F. (1885). The Ascent of Mount Roraima. Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society VII: 497–521. External links Account of Im Thurn's 1884 ascent of Roraima |- 1852 births 1932 deaths Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the University of Edinburgh University of Sydney alumni Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford History of Guyana English writers English botanists English explorers Photographers from London High Commissioners for the Western Pacific Governors of Fiji Members of the Legislative Council of Fiji British Guiana people Chief Secretaries of Ceylon Companions of the Order of the Bath Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire English people of Swiss descent Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Presidents of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland