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| name = Sir William Ouseley | image = William Ouseley.jpg | image_size = | caption = by H.R.Cook after Samuel Drummond | birth_date = 1767 | birth_place = Monmouthshire | death_date = September 1842 | death_place = Boulogne | education = | occupation = Diplomatic Secretary, Artist and Linguist | spouse = married (6 March 1796) Julia Frances Irving (daughter of Lt. Col. John Irving) | parents = Captain Ralph Ouseley{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} and Elizabeth née Holland | children = many }} Sir William Ouseley HFRSE FSAScot (1767 – September, 1842), was a British orientalist. Early lifeOuseley was born in Monmouthshire, the eldest son of Captain Ralph Ouseley and his wife Elizabeth (born Holland). He was tutored at home in the company of his brother, Gore and his cousin, Gideon Ouseley. All three had notable careers.[1] In 1787 he went to Paris to learn French, and there laid the foundation of his interest in Persian literature. In 1788 he became a cornet, a junior cavalry officer, in the 8th regiment of dragoons. At the end of 1794 he sold his commission and went to Leiden to study Persian.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Marriage and family lifeIn 1798 he was in Crickhowell where he eventually would publish his Travels and have them locally printed.[2] He had married Julia Frances Irving in 1796 and had a large number of children. The eldest was Sir William Gore Ouseley who was a diplomat in South America and a renowned artist. KnightedIn 1800, Charles Lord Cornwallis (1738–1805), who from 1786 to 1793 had been Governor-General of India, had him knighted in recognition of his promotion of oriental studies.[3] Published worksIn 1795 he published Persian Miscellanies; in 1797–1799, Oriental Collections; in 1799, Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia; in 1800, The Oriental Geography of Ebn Haukal (The Oriental Geography of Ibn Hawqal);and in 1801, 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 1800 he was knighted.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} PersiaWhen his younger brother, Sir Gore Ouseley, was sent, in 1810, as Ambassador to what was then called Persia (Iran), Sir William accompanied him as his Secretary. In September 1812 he cadged passage on HMS Salsette, then at Smyrna, and with her returned to England in 1813. In 1819–1823 he published, in three volumes, Travels in Various Countries of Middle East, especially Persia (Iran), in 1810, 1811 and 1852. He also published editions of John Lewis Burckhardt’s Travels in Arabia, Arabian Proverbs and Notes on the Bedouins and Wahbys. He contributed a number of important papers to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. He died at Boulogne-sur-Mer.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} References1. ^R. W. Ferrier, ‘Ouseley, Sir Gore, first baronet (1770–1844)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 10 Nov 2011 2. ^{{cite journal|last=Jones|first=Frederick|title=The diary of Captain Frederick Jones|journal=Radnorshire Society transactions|year=1984|volume=54|url=http://cylchgronaucymru.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1191402/llgc-id:1196161/llgc-id:1196209/getText}} 3. ^William Ouseley in Iranica on line accessed 15 September 2007
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