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WILLIAM GIFFORD PALGRAVE (1826—1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 630 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM GIFFORD PALGRAVE (1826—1888)  went to India as a soldier after a brilliant career at
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Charterhouse Sc,lool and Trinity College, Oxford; but, having become a
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Roman Catholic, he was ordained priest and served as a Jesuit missionary in India,
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Syria, and
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Arabia . Forsaking the priesthood about 1864, he was employed as a diplomatist by the
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British government in
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Egypt,
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Asia Minor, the West Indies, and Bulgaria, being appointed
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resident minister in Uruguay in 1884; he died at Montevideo on the 3oth of September 1888 . He wrote a
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romance, Hermann Agha (
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London, 1872), A Narrative of a
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Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (London, 1865), Essays on Eastern Questions (London, 1872), and other
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works .

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