Bland [formerly Crumpe], Nathaniel (1803–1865), Persian scholar, was born on 3 February 1803, the only son of Nathaniel Bland of Randalls Park, Leatherhead. His father's name was originally Crumpe, but after leaving Ireland and purchasing Randalls Park, in 1812 he took the surname of his mother, ...
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Bland [formerly Crumpe], Nathaniel (1803–1865), Persian scholar
Henry Beveridge
revised by Parvin Loloi
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Browne, Edward Granville (1862–1926), Persian scholar
E. D. Ross
revised by John Gurney
Browne, Edward Granville (1862–1926), Persian scholar, was born at Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, the home of his grandfather Colonel Benjamin Chapman Browne, on 7 February 1862. He was the eldest son of the nine children of Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne (1839–1917), civil engineer, and his wife, ...
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Gershevitch, Ilya (1914–2001), scholar of Iranian languages
Nicholas Sims-Williams
Gershevitch, Ilya (1914–2001), scholar of Iranian languages, was born Ilja Gerschewitsch on 24 October 1914 in Zürich, the only child of Aron (Arkadi) Gerschewitsch (1891–c.1926), a medical student, and his wife, (Rose) Mila Mirov (1889–1975), a pianist. Stranded in Germany on the outbreak of war in 1914, his Russian parents had fled to ...
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Gladwin, Francis (1744/5–1812), Persian scholar
P. J. Marshall
Gladwin, Francis (1744/5–1812), Persian scholar, was born the elder of two known sons of an otherwise unidentified F. Gladwin. He went to a school in Islington kept by John Shield. The whole of his adult life was spent in India. In 1765 he was reported to have been working for '...
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Harington, John Herbert (1765–1828), administrator in India and Persian scholar
Katherine Prior
Harington, John Herbert (1765–1828), administrator in India and Persian scholar, was born on 12 March 1765, and baptized at Woodford, Wiltshire, on 24 March 1765, the eldest of ten children (five sons and five daughters) of the Revd John Harington (1732–1795), vicar of ...
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Kennedy, Vans (1783–1846), army officer and Sanskrit and Persian scholar
Henry Beveridge
revised by J. B. Katz
Kennedy, Vans (1783–1846), army officer and Sanskrit and Persian scholar, was born at Pinmore in the parish of Ayr, Scotland, the youngest son of Robert Kennedy of Pinmore and his wife, Robina, daughter of John Vans of Barnbarroch, Wigtownshire, who on marrying his cousin assumed the name of ...
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Lambton, Ann Katharine Swynford [Nancy] (1912–2008), orientalist and Persianist
Burzine K. Waghmar
Lambton, Ann Katharine Swynford [Nancy] (1912–2008), orientalist and Persianist, was born at Mesnil Warren, Bury Road, Exning, Newmarket, Suffolk, on 8 February 1912, the elder daughter and second of the four children of George Lambton (1860–1945), racehorse trainer, and his wife, Cecily Margaret, ...
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MacKenzie, (David) Neil (1926–2001), scholar of Iranian languages
Nicholas Sims-Williams
MacKenzie, (David) Neil (1926–2001), scholar of Iranian languages, was born on 8 April 1926 at 56 Tytherton Road, Islington, London, the elder child and only son of David MacKenzie (1897–1974), a colonial trader and later civil servant of Scottish extraction, and his wife, ...
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Minorsky, Vladimir Fyodorovich (1877–1966), orientalist and Persian scholar
C. Edmund Bosworth
Minorsky, Vladimir Fyodorovich (1877–1966), orientalist and Persian scholar, the son of Fyodor M. Minorsky and his wife, Olga, née Golubitskaya, was born on 5 February 1877 at Korcheva, on the upper Volga to the north-west of Moscow. He was educated at Moscow University...
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Moulton, James Hope (1863–1917), biblical and Zoroastrian scholar
A. S. Peake
revised by Tim Macquiban
Moulton, James Hope (1863–1917), biblical and Zoroastrian scholar, the elder son of the Revd William Fiddian Moulton (1835–1898), biblical scholar and headmaster of the Leys School, Cambridge, and his wife, Hannah, daughter of the Revd Samuel Hope, was born at the Wesleyan Institution, Richmond, Surrey...
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Robinson, Samuel (1794–1884), Persian scholar
Stanley Lane-Poole
revised by Parvin Loloi
Robinson, Samuel (1794–1884), Persian scholar, was born at Manchester on 23 March 1794, and baptized at the Unitarian chapel, Upper Brook Street, Manchester, the son of Thomas Robinson (1760–1831) and his wife, Sophia Carolina, née Oates (1760–1825). He was educated at ...
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Schindler, Sir Albert Ashershund Houtum- (1846–1916), Persian scholar and employee of the Persian government
John Gurney
Schindler, Sir Albert Ashershund Houtum- (1846–1916), Persian scholar and employee of the Persian government, was born in Germany on 24 September 1846. No details are known of his family background, early life, or education. Some sources suggest that he was in fact Dutch, though educated at ...
