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Dunsterville, Frederick.
b ? - died ?
Published by Hugh Rayner: Dunsterville, F. ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE MADRAS RAILWAY. pub. Higginbotham, Madras 1898. 1st ed. landscape folio. pp:94/40 b/w plates/viii/6 pp adverts. orig. dec cloth rubbed worn and damp stained; hinges weak, o/w internally g. £120.00
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Listing of the original books:
Illustrated Guide to the Madras Railway, compiled and illustrated by F. Dunsterville (the Company's Chief Auditor) Madras, Higginbotham & Co. 1898. Photographs and text of places which can be visited from the Madras railway.
Madras Railway Company: Pictorial guide to its east and west coast lines, F Dunstville 1902
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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE: Federick Dunsterville listed as being present at the meeting of the Eighth Ordinary General Meeting.
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Scanned British Journal of Photography (date not clear): has Fed Dunsterville showing Lantern Slides
and - "Madras Amateur Photographic Society. January 11, Annual General Meeting, Mr. Dunsterville (President) in the chair."
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from A History of the Madras Amateur Photographic Society
The driving force of the Society at that time was Elias Frederick Evans Dunsterville, the auditor of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railways. Possibly because of this, there were a good number of Railwaymen on the membership list.
http://photomadras.org/www/society/history.html
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extract from History of Photography: India 1840 - 1980
We had that enthusiastic Railwayman, Elias Frederick Evans Dunsterville, an Auditor of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railways. He had shown much skill in working the wet plate' process in the early seventies. He came to India in 1878 and spent twenty five years in the Railways.
He explored the lesser known areas in his extensive beat and recorded sceneries, archaeological buildings and studied the ethnic groups of scheduled castes and aboriginals.
He retired in 1902 and migrated to New Zealand.
Most probably, he was the founder of the Amateur Photographic Society of Madras. with which he maintained active connection until his retirement.
He had compiled an illustrated book in the nature of a guide to places served by the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1898.
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