Claud Gilfillan Southey, a farmer, was the only son of Charles W. Southey, senator and farmer, and his wife Georgina S.M. Greaves. He was a grandson of Sir Richard Southey*. In 1893 he (identified as "Mr Claud Southey") presented a variety of prehistoric stone artefacts from the Cradock district to the Port Elizabeth Museum. Years later, in 1905, he (identified as "Mr Claude Southey")donated "stone knives and flakes" from the Middelburg Division to the South African Museum, Cape Town. In 1923 he (identified as "Claud Southey") published a pamphlet entitled The conservation of flood waters (Cape Town, 5 pp), which was published in both English and Afrikaans. He was married to Harriet Hockley Pringle, with whom he had three sons and two daughters.

List of sources:
Cape of Good Hope. Report of the Trustees of the South African Museum, 1905.

Cape of Good Hope. Report on the Port Elizabeth Museum, 1893.

Claude Gilfillan Southey. Geni. Retrieved on 11 November 2020 from https://www.geni.com/people/Claude-Gilfillan-Southey/6000000004079555349

Heese, J.A. South African genealogies. Pretoria and Stellenbosch, 1986-2005.

South African bibliography to the year 1925. London: Mansell, 1979.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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