William Gifford Palgrave
| William Gifford Palgrave MA | |||||||||
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| Born | 1826 | ||||||||
| Died | 1888 | ||||||||
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Trebizond Bangkok, Siam [1883] | ||||||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||||||
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1868.11.24 It was resolved, at the motion of the President [Huxley], and seconded by the Hon. Secretary [Thomas Wright], that F. Gifford Palgrave Esq. be elected an honorary Fellow of the Society.
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William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888) was an Arabic scholar, born at Westminster, England. He was the son of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H. and Elizabeth Turner.
A traveller and Orientalist, born in Westminster and educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford. He was a son of Sir Francis Palgrave. He joined the East India Company in 1847, and converted to Catholicism in India, where he was ordained as Jesuit priest. Later he renounced the religion—“We visited Mr. Palgrave’s old quarters, a monastery of fifty or sixty Jesuits, where Mr. Palgrave was a Jesuit for seventeen years. Here we all got fever.”[185] In 1862 he travelled through Central Arabia, recorded in his book Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1863). After this he took up various consular postings, for example Trebizond In Turkey, and authored a number of books, including Essays on Eastern Questions (London: Macmillan, 1872) and A Vision of Life: Semblance and Reality (London: Macmillan, 1891). Burton mentions Palgrave several times, in his correspondence and in his books, and his personal library contains several works by him, with written annotations.[
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Besides his work on Central Arabia, Gifford Palgrave published a volume of Essays on Eastern Questions,, a narrative called Hermann Agha,, a sketch of Dutch Guiana, and a volume of essays titled Ulysses.
