{"id":1875,"date":"2010-05-27T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:45:44","slug":"elgee-capt-c-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/elgee-capt-c-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Elgee, Capt. C.H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>apt. Cyril Hammond Elgee<\/strong>, formerly <strong>Elgie (1871-1917)<\/strong> was the British Resident (local administrator) in Ibadan, Nigeria from 1902\u00a0until 1913. In 1914 he wrote a paper entitled <em>The Evolution of Ibadan<\/em><sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>His suggestion (1908) that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> had been the location of Atlantis predated, by a number of years, the publication of a similar theory by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/frobenius-leo\/\">Leo Frobenius.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books\/about\/The_Evolution_of_Ibadan.html?id=vyQZAAAAIAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\">https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books\/about\/The_Evolution_of_Ibadan.html?id=vyQZAAAAIAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>apt. Cyril Hammond Elgee, formerly Elgie (1871-1917) was the British Resident (local administrator) in Ibadan, Nigeria from 1902\u00a0until 1913. In 1914 he wrote a paper entitled The Evolution of Ibadan(a). His suggestion (1908) that Nigeria had been the location of Atlantis predated, by a number of years, the publication of a similar theory by Leo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2819,2820,2821,173],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-c-h-elgee","tag-ibadan","tag-leo-frbenius","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66115,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/66115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}