George Percy Churchill’s Biographical Notices of Persian Statesmen and Notables
Resource type
Blog post
Creator (person)
Lowe, Daniel
Date published
December 5, 2014
Abstract
In 1906, the Government of India Foreign Department published (and republished in 1910) an index of prominent Qajar statesmen, compiled by George Percy Churchill, Oriental Secretary at the British Legation in Tehran. According to Cyrus Ghani, this collection of notes and genealogical tables, entitled Biographical Notices of Persian Statesmen and Notables, is the only document of its kind and serves an ‘indispensible source to ascertain who the British held in high regard and who they considered to be pro-Russian or independent’ (Ghani, pp. 78-79). Indeed, the importance of the work is attested to by numerous references in monographs and in entries in, for example, the invaluable reference tool Encyclopà¦dia Iranica.
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
UK
Rights statement
In Copyright