24 Facts About Gore Ouseley

Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Baronet GCH, PC, was a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat.

Gore Ouseley was born in 1770 and died at Hall Barn Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1844.

Gore Ouseley negotiated an important treaty between Russia and Persia in 1813 which redrew their common borders.

Gore Ouseley made his name in India where he was appointed a Major-Commander.

Gore Ouseley was made a baronet in 1808 with the recommendation of Lord Wellesley.

Gore Ouseley served as ambassador to Persia from 1810 where he was involved with negotiating treaties principally with Persia and Russia.

Gore Ouseley was accompanied by his brother as secretary, Sir William Ouseley, who like Gore was a keen orientalist.

Gore Ouseley was the first ambassador to Persia since Sir Dodmore Cotton was sent by Charles I Nominally he was supporting the Shah of Persia.

Gore Ouseley allegedly bribed Persian clerics and politicians to persuade them to secure British interests in Persia.

Gore Ouseley may have visited Persepolis during his stay in Persia, as a group of reliefs from the site collected by him were donated to the British Museum in 1825.

Gore Ouseley was responsible for publishing an early translation of the New Testament into Persian.

Martyn had died on his way back to England so Gore Ouseley agreed to arrange publication of the manuscript.

On his return to England in 1805, Gore Ouseley was not made a peer as he had expected.

Gore Ouseley brought his two sons with him back to England, and married Georgina Whitelocke.

The only one of his children to marry was his first son born in India, William Claude Gore Ouseley, who had since immigrated to Nova Scotia with the 96th Nova Scotia Fencibles and married Rosina Weeks.

Gore Ouseley's other son born in India, Ralph, became a Doctor and returned to India, subsequently dying there in 1823.

Gore Ouseley taught himself Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian, and for enjoyment, he and his brother William advanced the study of Persia.

William published a number of books, but those by Gore Ouseley were not published until after his death.

Gore Ouseley became President of the Society for the Publication of the Oriental Texts in 1842 and is credited with the society's publication of Gulistan of Sa'di by Sa'di, which had a translation by Francis Gladwin.

Gore Ouseley's son, The Reverend Canon Professor Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley was an English composer, organist, and musicologist.

Gore Ouseley was created a Baronet, of Claremont in the County of Hertford, in 1808.

Gore Ouseley was sworn of the Privy Council in 1820 and created a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order in 1831.

Gore Ouseley was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Gore Ouseley was the President of the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts.