This article is about Vivian Dering Majendie the explosives expert. For the cricketer and British Army major-general, see Vivian Majendie.
Majendie as caricatured by 'Spy' in 1892
Colonel Sir Vivian Dering Majendie, KCB (18 July 1836 – 25 March 1898)[1] was a British engineer who was one of the first bomb disposal experts.[2][3] He served as Chief Inspector of Explosives to Queen Victoria from 1871 until his death in 1898.[4]
^MAJENDIE, Sir Vivian Dering, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
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^Crossland, James. "The first bomb disposal expert: Colonel Vivian Majendie and the original 'war on terror'". The Conversation.
^Obituary in The New York Times April 25, 1898
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