Robert Pashley

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Robert Pashley (4 September 1805 – 29 May 1859) was a 19th-century English traveller, lawyer and economist.

Pashley was born in

Asia Minor and Crete, of which he published his two-volume Travels in Crete.[2] His work is considered a classic of writing on the Ottoman Empire
, with his detailed observations on local geography, customs, and social issues.

In 1837, he was

queen's counsel
in 1851

He stood for Parliament in the 1852 general election for King's Lynn but was not elected.

In 1853 he married Marie, the only daughter of Baron Von Lauer of Berlin. They had three children.

He published two works on economics: On Pauperism (1854), and Observations on the government bill for abolishing the Removal of the Poor (1854).

He died in 1859 at 16,

Kensal Green cemetery
.

Studies of Crete

Pashley was one of the foremost researchers of

archaeological recovery.[3] In his travel to Crete in 1830 he observed that Greek was the common language of the island that was then part of the Ottoman Empire, even though a substantial part of the population was then Muslim.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Pashley, Thomas (PSLY825R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Robert Pashley, Travels in Crete, 1837, J. Murray
  3. ^ C. Michael Hogan, Cydonia, The Modern Antiquarian, 23 January 2008 [1]