RYBOT, Norman Victor Lacey. Jersey 7.1.1874 — Jersey 18.5.1961. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel George Oliver Rybot (1827–1912) of Bengal Artillery and Victoria Baker (1838–1913). Joined Indian army in 1897, posted in the Punjab. In 1903-04 participated as Lieutenant in Younghusband’s expedition to Lhasa. In WW I in Suez Canal defence and in Mesopotamia as Major, finally Turkish war prisoner. After liberation retired from army in 1920. In retirement lived in Jersey, keenly interested in local history. Also a painter and lay entomologist (observing butterflies even as war prisoner).
Publications: “A Small-Pox Edict Pillar at Lhasa”, Man 26, 1926, 180-181 (of c. 1770).
– Much on Jersey.
Sources: Jerripedia (theislandwiki.org) with photo; Wikidata (naming both parents).
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