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[[Major-General (British Army)|Major-General]] '''Arthur Reid Lempriere''' ([[Ewell]], [[Surrey]], England, 22 August 1835<ref>''1891 England Census''</ref>{{Incomplete citation|date=November 2021}}<ref>''UK, British Army Lists, 1882–1962''</ref> – 10 April 1927)<ref name="death">''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995''</ref> was a British Army officer of the [[Royal Engineers]], including of the [[Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment]] that founded [[British Columbia]] as the [[Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866)]].

He was in the third and the largest group of Royal Engineers to arrive in British Columbia in 1859. He served in British Columbia until 1863. Lempriere surveyed the route from [[Hope, British Columbia|Hope]] to [[Lytton, British Columbia|Lytton]] through the [[Coquihalla River]] in 1859. Three geographical features are named for him in the northern reaches of the [[North Thompson River]] and along [[British Columbia Highway 5]] in the [[Thompson-Nicola Regional District]] of the [[British Columbia Interior]], between the communities of [[Kamloops]] to the south and [[Tete Jaune Cache]]-[[Valemount, British Columbia|Valemount]] to the north:
*{{interlanguage link|Mount Lempriere|qid=Q22441914}},<ref>{{BCGNIS|950|Mount Lempriere}}</ref> in the [[Monashee Mountains]], with an elevation of {{convert|3205|m}}
*Lempriere, a [[railway point]]<ref>{{BCGNIS|956|Lempriere}}</ref> on the [[Canadian National Railway]] [[Transcontinental railroad|transcontinental]] [[Main line (railway)|main line]] (used today by freight traffic and the [[Via Rail]] ''[[Canadian (train)|Canadian]]'' train). There was a [[post office]] from 1942 to 1945 when [[Japanese internment in Canada|Japanese were interned]] at a work camp in this area.{{citation needed|date= August 2018}}
*Lempriere Creek,<ref>{{BCGNIS|951|Lempriere Creek}}</ref> a right tributary of the North Thompson River, which has its mouth just upstream of confluence of the North Thompson River and the [[Albreda River]], where the North Thompson River turns 90° right and heads south.

A fourth feature named after him is Lempriere Bank,<ref>{{BCGNIS|951|Lempriere Bank}}</ref> an [[ocean bank]] south of [[Aristazabal Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]] on the British Columbia Coast.

He retired from the British Army in 1882.  

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