Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Orientalist, translator, and poet. Born in Cambridge. Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, later becoming a college fellow in 1867. Spent time wth gypsies as a child and learned Romani.Catalogued oriental manuscripts for college and university libraries in Cambridge. Had a wide knowledge of languages, including Hindustani, Persian, Arabic, Turkish. Conducted geographical work while on expeditions to Palestine (1869-1870). Married Laura Hanbury Davis in 1871, and in the same year was appointed Lorn Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. While on a mission for the British government, working to protect the Suez Canal from attack by Arab tribes, he was ambushed and murdered. Biographical information: ODNB. (AC)