Edred John Henry Corner
Edred John Henry Corner
The archival records provided to this office contain no biographical material on Edred John Henry Corner. The sole source available for this commission is H.S. Barlow’s 1996 article on Sir Frank Swettenham, which does not mention Corner by name, nor does it reference any individual of that name in its narrative, footnotes, or bibliography.
Limitations of the Record
It is the duty of this office to state plainly that no article can be composed from the evidence at hand. The Barlow piece, while rich in detail concerning Swettenham’s career, his writings, and his relationships with contemporaries such as W.E. Maxwell, C.C. Smith, and Gertrude Bell, makes no reference to an Edred John Henry Corner. No diary entry, letter, official despatch, or secondary citation within the source identifies such a person, nor does the reference list include any work by or about him.
Research and Documentation
Should further records on this individual exist within the Society’s holdings—whether in earlier volumes of the JMBRAS, in the Straits Branch series, or in the Society’s manuscript collections—they have not been supplied for this commission. A targeted search of the journal index and the Society’s card catalogue would be the necessary next step before any biographical treatment could be attempted.
MBRAS Sources
- H.S. Barlow (1996). Swettenham. Schemer and historian. JMBRAS 69(2): 83–100
Bibliography
No indexed articles recorded.