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MORIER, JAMES (1780-1849) , English traveller and author, was born in 1780. Through the influence of his uncle, Admiral William Waldegrave, Baron Radstock, he entered the diplomatic service, and as secretary to Lord Elgin
vizier
Asia
Minor to Constantinople in 18o8-9. From 1810 to 1816 he was the British representative at the court of Persia, and after his return he published A Second Journey through Persia to Constantinople between the years 810 and MI6. His knowledge of Eastern life and manners he also turned to account in the composition of several entertaining romances. The most popular of these were The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England (1828), Zohrab the Hostage
Morier died at Brighton on the 23rd of March
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