Charles Reginald Enock

Charles Reginald Enock also in the name variants C. Reginald Enock or CR Enock (born November 23, 1868 in Edgbaston, Birmingham , England , † April 7, 1970 in Midhurst , West Sussex , England) was a British engineer , Latin American researcher and author .

Life

Family and education

Charles Reginald Enock, who was born in late autumn 1868 in what was then the Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston, now a district, was the third of nine children of Arthur Henry Enock (1839–1917) and his wife Lavinia Georgina, born Hollis (1841–1899), to receive in the summer of 1869 the baptism in St. Luke's Church in Birmingham. Enock, who grew up in the district of Balsall Heath, completed his studies in mining and civil engineering after completing compulsory schooling . Charles Reginald Enock married on June 23, 1899 in Santil, Mexico , Concha Lavin, who came from a poor background. The couple married a second time on July 14, 1901 in Newton Abbot in the county of Devon in England. Charles Reginald Enock died in Midhurst in the spring of 1970 at the old age of 101.

Professional activity

Charles Reginald Enock, who was employed as a civil engineer after completing his studies, traveled to the Latin American countries Mexico, Ecuador and Peru on behalf of US investors from the end of the 19th century until the early 1920s . Enock, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society , also held positions as a lecturer at the Institute of British Geographers and for the Royal Society of Arts in London . The passionate researcher Charles Reginald Enock emerged in particular with fundamental human geographic and physiogeographic contributions.

Publications

• together with Martin Hume: Mexico: its ancient and modern civilization, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development, in: South American series, 3., Fisher Unwin, London [u. a.], 1909
• Farthest west: Life and travel in the United States, London, 1910
• The Andes and the Amazon: life and travel in Peru, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1912
• The land laws and "socialism" of the Incas of Peru, in: National Liberal Club Political and Economic Circle .; Transactions, PS King & Son, London, 1912
• together with WE Hardenburg: The Putumayo, the devil's paradise, travels in the Peruvian Amazon region and account of the atrocities committed upon the Indians therein, TF Unwin, London, 1912
• The secret of the Pacific. : A discussion of the origin of the early civilizations of America ... and of the possibilities of Asiatic influence thereon, London, 1912
• The republics of Central and South America, their resources, industries, sociology and future, London, 1913
• Ecuador, its ancient and modern history, topography and natural resources, industries and social development, TF Unwin, London, 1914
• The Panama canal (its past, present, and future), in: Nation's library, Collins' cleartype Press, London, Glasgow, 1914
• Peru: its former and present civilization, history and existing conditions, topography and natural resources, commerce and general development, in: South American series, 2., T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1916
• Spanish America, its romance, reality and future, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1920

literature

• Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain): The Geographical Journal, Volume 25, Royal Geographical Society, London, 1905, p. 101.
• The Athenaeum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, Volume 1, J. Francis, London, 1908, pp. 4, 684, 752.
• Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain): Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Volume 66, Published for the Society by George Bell, London, 1924, p. 12.
• Who was who, 1961–1970: a companion to Who's who, containing the biographies of those who died during the decade 1961–1970, A. & C. Black, London, 1972, p. 117.

Web links

• Literature by and about Charles Reginald Enock in the WorldCat bibliographic database