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Ouseley, Gore, Sir, 1770-1844

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Personal name headingOuseley, Gore, Sir, 1770-1844
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Associated countryIreland England India Bangladesh Iran
Associated placeDhaka (Bangladesh)
Birth date1770-06-24
Death date1844-11-18
Place of birthLimerick (Ireland : County)
Place of deathBeaconsfield (England)
Field of activityTextiles Entrepreneurship Diplomacy Linguistics
AffiliationRoyal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
London Travellers Club
Profession or occupationAmbassadors Executives Businesspeople Linguists Diplomats
Special noteSome sources state he was born in Monmouthshire, Wales
Found inIndian tracts, 1764 (name not given; bookplate in LC copy:Sir Gore Ouseley, Baronet)
DNB (Ouseley, Gore, Sir, 1770-1844)
Martin, W. The Ouseley brothers and their journey to Persia 1810-15: insights into the world of the traveller in the early nineteenth century, 2018: p. 5 (Sir Gore Ouseley ; established textile factory in Dacca, Bengal in 1792 ; Knighted for services in India ; undertook embassy to Persia in 1810 ; founder member of the London Travellers Club and Royal Asiatic Society in London ; died in Beaconsfield)
Wikipedia, viewed 16 August 2018 (Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Baronet ; born 24 June 1770 ; died 18 November 1844 ; entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat ; negotiated a treaty between Russia and Persia in 1813 which redrew their common borders ; [image of male])
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography WWW site (Ouseley, Sir Gore, first baronet ; born in Limerick)