Frank Ludlow

Frank Ludlow OBE (10 August 1885 – 25 March 1972[1]) was an English officer stationed in the British Mission at Lhasa and a naturalist.

He was born in Chelsea, London and studied at West Somerset County School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

He taught at Sind College Karachi (where he became vice principal and professor of biology and lecturer in English).

During World War I he was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers as a Second Lieutenant 22 July 1916 and was attached to the 1st battalion, 97th Deccan Infantry 31 January 1917.

In the Birthday Honours 1927 (London Gazette 3 June 1927) he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Frank Ludlow with Tibetan students between 1923 and 1926