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My WIP page on Alfred Wilked Drayson:

Alfred Willkes Drayson (1826 – 1901) a military officer, explorer, and astronomer. He was close friends with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was responsible for the "Drayson Hypothesis" that explained the Earth's Ice age in terms of tilting of the Earth's axis.

Military Career
Alfred Drayson graduated Royal Military Academy in Woolwich and was commisioned in the Royal Artillery in 1846. He served in South Africa in the 7th Xhosa War in 1847 and the Boer insurgency in 1848. In 1876 he commanded a brigade in Bengal, India.

at the Royal Military Academy. While there he taught the Duke of Connaught (whose mother Queen Victoria presented him with a portrait of the Duke in 1868).