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WILLIAM GIFFORD PALGRAVE (1826—1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 630 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:GIFFORD See also:PALGRAVE (1826—1888) went to See also:India as a soldier after a brilliant career at See also:Charterhouse Sc,lool and Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford; but, having become a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, he was ordained See also:priest and served as a Jesuit missionary in India, See also:Syria, and See also:Arabia. Forsaking the priesthood about 1864, he was employed as a diplomatist by the See also:British See also:government in See also:Egypt, See also:Asia See also:Minor, the See also:West Indies, and See also:Bulgaria, being appointed See also:resident See also:minister in See also:Uruguay in 1884; he died at See also:Montevideo on the 3oth of See also:September 1888. He wrote a See also:romance, See also:Hermann Agha (See also:London, 1872), A Narrative of a See also:Year's See also:Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (London, 1865), Essays on Eastern Questions (London, 1872), and other See also:works.

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