Edward Denison Ross

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Edward Denison Ross (John Lavery, 1922)

Sir Edward Denison Ross (6 June 1871 – 20 September 1940) was an

School of Oriental Studies (now SOAS, University of London) from 1916 to 1937.[1][2]

Ross read in 49 languages, and spoke in 30. He was director of the British Information Bureau for the Near East. Sometime after 1877, Ross wrote an Introduction a reprint of

Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration in Tehran
.

In January 1940, shortly after the outbreak of WWII in Europe, Ross was named head of the British Information Bureau at Istanbul with the rank of Counsellor. As an acquaintance of the deceased Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Ross was eager to serve his country from Turkey. However, the loss of his wife Dora in April 1940 was more than he could bare, and Sir Ross himself died in Istanbul at age 69 in September 1940.[6] He is buried at the Haydarpasha English Cemetery in Uskudar.

Sir Edward Denison Ross learning Tibetan with Lama Lobqang (probably Darjeeling, 1907)

References

  1. ^ Galambos, "Touched a Nation's heart: Sir E. Denison Ross and Alexandre Csoma de Koros" Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Third Series) 21.3 (2011): 366
  2. ^ Lock, Helen (9 February 2016). "One hundred years of Soas - in pictures" – via www.theguardian.com.
  3. Sale's translation
  4. ^ Current Biography 1940 p. 697.
  5. ^ "Papers of Professor Sir Edward Denison Ross and Lady Dora Ross - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk.
  6. ^ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/F54686C6B945BF6D23DCA8D187334443/S0041977X00090054a.pdf/sir_edward_denison_ross.pdf

Further reading

  • Sir Edward Dennison Ross (1871 - 1940): A Persian Scholar and Orientalist Par Excellence by R M Chopra, INDO-IRANICA, Vol.LXVI, Nos.1 to 4, 2013

External links

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