This month’s update contains 17 new articles with a special focus on British connections with the Middle East and mainland Europe.
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New and updated subjects - September 2020
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Bermant, Chaim Icyk (1929-1998), journalist, novelist, and religious commentator
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Brant, James (1789–1861), merchant and consul
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Briggs, Samuel (1776–1868), merchant and consul in Egypt
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Crestadoro, Andrea(1808–1879), inventor and librarian
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Creswell, Margaret Susan (1847–1936), postmistress
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Davis, Nathan (1819–1882), missionary and archaeologist
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Elerius (d. in or after 1264), administrator and abbot of Pershore
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Eliot, John (fl.1562?–1593), translator, author, and language teacher
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Gadd, Cyril John (1893–1969), Assyriologist
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Jacobs, Michael Charles (1952–2014), travel writer and art historian
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Lloyd, Seton Howard Frederick (1902–1996), architect and archaeologist
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Oates, (Edward Ernest) David Michael (1927–2004), historian and archaeologist
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Shergold, Harold Taplin (Shergy) (1915–2000), intelligence officer
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Skene, James Henry (1812–1886), consul and author
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Steingass, Francis Joseph (1825–1902), orientalist and lexicographer
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Taylor, Robert (1788–1852), British political representative in Ottoman Iraq
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Waechter, Sir Harry Sedan, first baronet (1871-1929) [see under: Waechter, Sir Max Leonard], merchant, philanthropist, and gardener
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Waechter, Sir Max Leonard (1827–1924), merchant, philanthropist, and promoter of European federation
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