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OUSELEY, SIR WILLIAM (17691842)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 381 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
OUSELEY, SIR WILLIAM (17691842) , British Orientalist, eldest son of Captain Ralph Ouseley, of an old Irish family, was born in
Monmouthshire
 . After a private education he went to Paris, in 1787, to learn French, and there laid the foundation of his
interest
  in Persian literature. In 1788 he became a cornet in the 8th
regiment
  of dragoons. At the end of 1794 he sold his commission and went to Leiden to study Persian. In 1795 he published Persian Miscellanies; in 17971799, Oriental Collections; in 1799, Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia; in ,800, The Oriental Geography of Ebn Haukal; and in 18o1, a
translation
  of the Bakhtiyar Nama and Observations on Some Medals and Gems. He received the degree of LL.D. from the university of Dublin in 1797, and in 'Soo he was knighted. When his brother, Sir Gore Ouseley, was sent, in 181o, as
ambassador
  to Persia, Sir William accompanied him as secretary. He returned to England in 1813, and in 18191823 published, in three volumes, Travels in Various Countries of the
East
 , especially Persia, in 181o, r81r and 1812. He also published editions of the Travels and Arabian
Proverbs
  of
Burckhardt
 . He contributed a number of important papers to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. He died at Boulogne in September 1842.


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