Major-General Arthur Reid Lempriere (Ewell, Surrey, England, 22 August 1835[1][2] – 10 April 1927)[3] was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers, including of the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment that founded British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866).

He was in the third and the largest group of Royal Engineers to arrive in British Columbia in 1859. He served in British Columbia until 1863. Lempriere surveyed the route from Hope to Lytton through the Coquihalla River in 1859. Three geographical features are named for him in the northern reaches of the North Thompson River and along British Columbia Highway 5 in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District of the British Columbia Interior, between the communities of Kamloops to the south and Tete Jaune Cache-Valemount to the north:

A fourth feature named after him is Lempriere Bank,[7] an ocean bank south of Aristazabal Island in the Pacific Oceanon the British Columbia Coast.

He retired from the British Army in 1882.

References

  1. 1891 England Census
  2. UK, British Army Lists, 1882–1962
  3. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995
  4. "Mount Lempriere". BC Geographical Names.
  5. "Lempriere". BC Geographical Names.
  6. "Lempriere Creek". BC Geographical Names.
  7. "Lempriere Bank". BC Geographical Names.


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