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{{Short description|British colonial governor and journalist (1879–1953)}}
Major '''Claude Scudamore Jarvis''' [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (born 20 July 1879 in [[Forest Gate]], [[London]], died 8 December 1953 in [[Ringwood]], [[Hampshire]]) was a British colonial governor, Arabist and naturalist noted for his knowledge of and rapport with the desert Bedouin.▼
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{{Infobox person
|name = Major Claude Scudamore Jarvis
|image = Major_Claude_Scudamore_Jarvis,_Governor_of_Sinai.jpg
|caption = Major C. S. Jarvis, Governor of Sinai, inspecting a Guard of Honour.
|birth_name = Claude Scudamore Jarvis
|birth_date = {{birth date|1879|7|20|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Forest Gate]], [[Essex]] (now London), England
|death_date = {{death date and age|1953|12|8|1879|7|20|df=yes}}
|death_place = [[Ringwood, Hampshire|Ringwood]], [[Hampshire]], England
}}▼
▲Major '''Claude Scudamore Jarvis''' [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (born 20 July 1879 in [[Forest Gate]], [[London]], died– 8 December 1953 in [[Ringwood]], [[Hampshire]]) was a British colonial governor,. As an Arabist and naturalist, he became noted for his knowledge of the desert [[Bedouin]] and for his rapport with the desert Bedouinthem.
 
== Life and career ==
The son of John Bradford Jarvis, an insurance clerk, and his wife, Mary Harvey, he joined the merchant navy in 1896, then volunteered for British imperial service in the [[Second Boer War]] in 1899. Following his return from the war, he was in April 1902 appointed a [[second lieutenant]] in the 3rd ([[Militia3rd (UnitedDorset Kingdom)|Militia]]) Battalion, of the [[DorsetshireDorset Regiment]].<ref>{{LondonGazetteLondon Gazette|issue=27424 |supp=|startpagepage=2423 |date=11 April 1902}}</ref> ▼
 
He married Mabel Jane Hodson, daughter of a member of the US embassy staff in London, in 1903. They had one daughter. Jarvis then combined part-time military service in [[Ireland]] with freelance journalism until the [[First World War]] broke out.▼
▲The son of John Bradford Jarvis, an insurance clerk, and his wife, Mary Harvey, he joined the merchant navy in 1896, then volunteered for British imperial service in the [[Second Boer War]] in 1899. Following his return from the war, he was in April 1902 appointed a [[second lieutenant]] in the 3rd ([[Militia (United Kingdom)|Militia]]) Battalion of the [[Dorsetshire Regiment]].<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=27424 |supp=|startpage=2423 |date=11 April 1902}}</ref>
▲He married Mabel Jane Hodson, daughter of a member of the US embassy staff in London, in 1903. They had one daughter. Jarvis then combined part-time military service in [[Ireland]] with freelance journalism until the [[First World War]] broke out.
 
Jarvis's interest in [[Arab people|Arabs]] and the [[Arabic language]] grew from wartime army service in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] and [[Egypt]], then a British [[protectorate]]. He was seconded to the new Egyptian frontiers administration by the British high commissioner, Sir [[Reginald Wingate]], serving first in the Western desert and then in [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]]. His Arabic and knowledge of Bedouin customs allowed him as governor of Sinai from 1923 to intercede successfully in local disputes and to clamp down on banditry and [[illegal drug trade|drug trafficking]]. He also traced the remains of a Roman and Byzantine settlement in northern Sinai, and by damming the local [[Wadi]] Gedeirat and restoring the stone channels succeeded in recreating an oasis. He wrote of governance in Western Egypt:<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ellis |first1=Matthew H. |title=Desert Borderland:The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya |date=2018 |publisher=Stanford University Press |pages=15–16}}</ref>
 
<blockquote>The Coastguards had policed the Western Desert and Red Sea District; and the [Ministry of the] Interior had functioned in the oases of [[Kharga]], [[Dakhla Oasis|Dakhla]], [[Bahariya]], and [[Farafra]]; whilst the Ministries of Justice, Finance, Health, Education, etc., had all supplied officials to perform their various duties.</blockquote>
In 1933 while Governor of Sinai Jarvis was appointed an [[Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]].<ref name="obe">{{LondonGazette |issue=33946 |date=2 June 1933 |startpage=3810 |supp=x |accessdate=31 July 2011}}</ref> The King of Egypt had early in 1931 awarded him with the Insignia of the Third Class of the [[Order of the Nile]].<ref name="nile">{{LondonGazette |issue=33746 |date=2 August 1931 |startpage=5466 |supp=x |accessdate=31 July 2011}}</ref>▼
 
▲In 1933 while Governor of Sinai Jarvis was appointed an [[Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]].<ref name="obe">{{LondonGazetteLondon Gazette |issue=33946 |date=2 June 1933 |startpagepage=3810 |supp=x |accessdate=31 July 2011y}}</ref> The King of Egypt had early in 1931 awarded him with the Insignia of the Third Class of the [[Order of the Nile]].<ref name="nile">{{LondonGazetteLondon Gazette |issue=33746 |date=2 August 1931 |startpagepage=5466 |supp=x |accessdate=31 July 2011y}}</ref>
Jarvis took early retirement in 1936 and was appointed a [[Order of St Michael and St George|Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)]]. He then devoted himself to natural history, writing and farming. He joined the staff of the magazine ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]'' in 1939, contributing a column, ''A Countryman's Notes'', for 14 years. He was awarded the Lawrence Medal by the [[Royal Society for Asian Affairs|Royal Central Asian Society]] in 1938.<ref>[http://www.telawrence.info/telawrenceinfo/ref/memmed.shtml T.E. Lawrence studies website]. Retrieved 25 July 2010.</ref> He died at his Ringwood home, Chele Orchard, on 8 December 1953.<ref>Biographical information: {{cite web | url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34160| author = Ronald Wingate | title = Jarvis, Claude Scudamore (1879–1953)| work = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition| publisher = Oxford University Press, 2004 | date = May 2006 |accessdate= 25 July 2010}}</ref>▼
 
▲Jarvis took early retirement in 1936 and was appointed a [[Order of St Michael and St George|Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)]]. He then devoted himself to natural history, writing and farming. He joined the staff of the magazine ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]'' in 1939, contributing a column, ''A Countryman's Notes'', for 14 years. He was awarded the Lawrence Medal by the [[Royal Society for Asian Affairs|Royal Central Asian Society]] in 1938.<ref>[http://www.telawrence.info/telawrenceinfo/ref/memmed.shtml T. E. Lawrence studies website]. Retrieved 25 July 2010.</ref> He died at his Ringwood home, Chele Orchard, on 8 December 1953.<ref>Biographical information: {{cite web Webarchive| url= httphttps://wwwweb.oxforddnbarchive.comorg/viewweb/article20120413193853/34160| author = Ronald Wingatehttp://telawrence.info/telawrenceinfo/ref/memmed.shtml | title date=13 Jarvis,April Claude2012 Scudamore}}. (1879–1953)| work = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition| publisher = Oxford University Press, 2004 | date = May 2006 |accessdate=Retrieved 25 July 2010}}</ref>.
</ref> In 1938, in an article for the ''Palestine Exploration Quarterly'', Jarvis proposed [[Mount Helal]] as the [[biblical Mount Sinai]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Jarvis |first=C.S. |title=The forty years' wandering of the Israelites |journal=Palestine Exploration Quarterly |year=1938 |volume=70 |pages=25–40|doi=10.1179/peq.1938.70.1.25 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |chapter=Kadesh Barnea: Some geographical and historical remarks |last=de Geus |first=C.H.J. |year=1977 |editor-last=Brongers |editor-first=Hendrik Antonie |title=Instruction and Interpretation: Studies in Hebrew Language, Palestinian archaeology and biblical exegesis |place=Leiden |publisher=Brill Archive |isbn=90-04-05433-2}}</ref> He died at his Ringwood home, Chele Orchard, on 8 December 1953.<ref>Biographical information: {{Cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34160|author=Ronald Wingate |title=Jarvis, Claude Scudamore (1879–1953) |date=May 2006 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34160 |accessdate=25 July 2010}}</ref>
 
==Partial bibliography==
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* ''Yesterday and To-day in Sinai'' (Edinburgh/London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1931).
* ''Three Deserts''. Experiences in Egypt (London: John Murray, 1936).
* ''Oriental Spotlight''. A humorous guide to travel in the East, under the pseudonym Rameses (London: John Murray, 1937).
* ''Desert and Delta''. An account of modern Egypt (London: John Murray, 1938).
* ''The Back Garden of Allah'' (London: John Murray, 1939).
* ''Through Crusader Lands'' (London: Pitman's Travel Series, 1939).
* ''Arab Command. The biography of Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Peake Pasha'' (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1942).
* ''Scattered Shots'' (London: John Murray, 1942).
* ''Heresies and Humours'' (London: Country Life, 1943).
* ''Half a Life''. Reminiscences (London: John Murray, 1943).
* ''Happy Yesterdays'' (London: Country Life, 1948).
* ''Gardener's Medley'' (London: Country Life, 1951).
* ''Innocent Pursuits'' (London: John Murray, 1953).<ref>[http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/STUG23Y652K9GX2G3D7CXNYGIHC3SL39541V1SYD3A4ID3RKBX-13021?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=blac Bibliographical information: British Library Integrated Catalogue]. Retrieved 25 July 2010. His books appeared under the name C. S. Jarvis or Major C. S. Jarvis, except where noted.</ref>
* Six articles ofby hisJarvis appeared in the ''Royal Central Asian Journal'', 1935-39in 1935–1939.<ref>[http://www.rsaa.org.uk/speakers/view/jarvis_c-s Royal Society for Asian Affairs] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613025456/http://www.rsaa.org.uk/speakers/view/jarvis_c-s |date=13 June 2011}}. Retrieved 25 July 2010.</ref> He also wrote for ''Antiquity'', 1932-40in 1932–1940.<ref>[http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/search/asptemplate.asp?SearchForm=/search/search.htm&cmd=search&index=E:\dtIndex\ANT&searchType=bool&request=&maxFiles=10&request=C.+S.+Jarvis&go=Go Antiquity monthly review]. Retrieved 25 July 2010.</ref>
* Jarvis's views on the wanderings of the Biblical Israelites in Sinai appear in Jarvis, C. S. Jarvis (1938), "The forty years' wandering of the Israelites", ''Palestine Exploration Quarterly'':, 25-40pp. 25–40
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== Further reading ==
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There* is a genial account of Jarvis's life and career up to 1936 inDuggan, Brian Patrick Duggan:(2009). ''Saluki: The Desert Hound and the English Travelers Who Brought it to the West''. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), pp.&nbsp; 191–203. {{ISBN |0-7864-3407-4}} (an account of Jarvis's life and career up to 1936)
 
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