human inventions not necessarily supported by nature's dispositions, and as such they are only of solid value so long as they can be made strong enough and secure enough to prevent their violation and infringement. – Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich (1916) His thought on international boundaries emphasized a need for them to be, or have the potential to become, militarily strong. Holdich died in 1929 at his home at Parklands in Merrow, Surrey, near Guildford, at the age of 86. List of publications T H Holdich. (Editor). Peru-Bolivia Boundary Commission Report 1911-1913. 1918. T H Holdich. Boundaries in Europe and the Near East, 1918. T H Holdich. Frontiers and Boundary Making, 1916. T H Holdich, Leonard Arthur Bethell and Hamilton Bower. The Abor Expedition: Geographical Results: Discussion. Geographical Journal, Feb., 1913, vol. 41, no. 2, pages 109–114. T H Holdich. Gates of India, Being an Historical Narrative of Early Relations Between the East and the West, 1910. T H Holdich. Tibet the Mysterious, 1906. T H Holdich. Countries of the King's Award, 1904. T H Holdich. England's Strength in Asia. Proceedings of the Central Asian Society, 1904. T H Holdich. Indian Borderland 1880–1900, 1901. M. G. Gerard, T. H. Holdrich, R. A. Wahab, A. W. Alcock. Report on the proceedings of the Pamir Boundary Commission. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. 1897. T H Holdich. Notes on the Antiquities, Ethnography and History of Las Bela and Makran, 1894. Family Holdich was married to Ada Vanrenen, and had two daughters and two sons. His elder daughter Laura Holdich married in 1898 Major Edmund Peach (1865–1902), Indian Staff Corps. References External links Biography from the Holdich Family History Society The Geographical Journal – Obituary, Vol LXXV, No 3, March 1930 1843 births 1929 deaths English geographers Royal Engineers officers British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War British military personnel of the Abyssinian War Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society Indology 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 Indian Empire British people in colonial India