| 词条 | William Shakespear (explorer) |
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| name = William Shakespear | image = William Henry Irvine Shakespear.png | image_size = 150 | caption = | birth_name = William Henry Irvine Shakespear | birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|10|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Bombay, British India | death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|1|24|1878|10|29|df=y}} | death_place = Lake Jarrab, Al Majma'ah, Arabia | occupation = Civil Servant | known_for = Explorer }} Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear (29 October 1878 – 24 January 1915), was a British civil servant and explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia and made the first official British contact with Ibn Sa'ud, future king of Saudi Arabia. He was the military adviser to Ibn Saud from 1910 to 1915, when he was shot and killed in the Battle of Jarrab by one of Ibn Rashid's men. Arabian expeditionsWhile in Kuwait, Shakespear made seven separate expeditions into the Arabian interior, during which he became a close friend of Ibn Sa'ud, then the Emir of the Nejd. It was Shakespear who arranged for Ibn Sa'ud to be photographed for the first time. Ibn Sa'ud had never seen a camera before. In March 1914, Shakespear began a {{convert|2900|km|mi|-2|sing=on}} journey from Kuwait to Riyadh and on to Aqaba via the Nafud Desert, which he mapped and studied in great detail, the first European to do so. In November 1914, the British government in India asked Shakespear to secure Ibn Sa'ud's support for the British-Indian Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, which had just taken Basra. AftermathIt has been suggested by some authorities, notably St. John Philby, that the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire might have been very differently directed if Shakespear had survived, that the British would have supported and armed Ibn Sa'ud rather than Sherif Hussein ibn Ali.
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