FARRANT, Colonel FRANCIS (b. 1803 [?]; d. 1868), British soldier and diplomat. Farrant was gazetted a lieutenant in the Bombay…

CURZON, GEORGE NATHANIEL, 1st Marquess of Kedleston (b. Kedleston, Darbyshire, England, 11 January 1859, d. London, 30 March 1925), statesman,…

IRONSIDE, WILLIAM EDMUND, Field Marshall, 1st Baron Ironside of Archangel and Ironside (b. Edinburgh, 6 May 1880; d. London, 22…

HOLDICH, Colonel Sir THOMAS HUNGERFORD, British Army officer and Anglo-Indian surveyor (b. Dingley, Northamptonshire, 1842; d. Merrow, Surrey, 1929; Figure…

HARDINGE, Sir ARTHUR HENRY, British diplomat (b. London, 12 October 1859, d. East Sheen, 27 December 1933). Arthur was the…

HARDINGE,  Lord CHARLES, First Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, (b. London, 1858, d. Penshurst, Kent, 1944.) Charles, the second son of…

GREAT BRITAIN vii. BRITISH TRAVELERS TO PERSIA The British, more than any others, have been prolific authors of travelogues, and…

GREAT BRITAIN ii. AN OVERVIEW OF RELATIONS: SAFAVID TO THE PRESENT Prior to the Safavid period, contacts between Britain and…

GRANT DUFF, Sir EVELYN MOUNTSTUART (b. 1863, d. Bath, 1926), British diplomat serving successively in Rome, Tehran (1892-94 when he…

GRANT, Captain NATHANIEL PHILIP, a military officer of the East India Company (b. New York 1774, k. near Ḵorramābād, April…

GOLDSMID, Major-General Sir Fredrick John, British scholar, negotiator and arbitrator of Perso-Afghan boundary dispute (b. Milan, 1818; d. Hammersmith, England,…

FRASER JAMES BAILLIE, 15th laird of Reelig (1783-1856), traveler, writer, and artist. He was the eldest son of Edward Satchell…

SYKES, Ella Constance (b. Stoke Damerel, Devon, England, 11 November 1863; d. London, 23 March 1939), traveler and writer who…

SYKES, Sir Percy Molesworth (b. Canterbury, England, 28 February 1867; d. London, 11 June 1945), soldier, diplomat, traveler, and writer…