Our Personal Papers include material from the founding members of the Society, prominent Orientalists and other figures associated with the work of the Society.
Finding Further Information
Here are some examples of the Personal Papers within the Society’s collections. The individual catalogues for these papers can be accessed by clicking on the persons name and a webpage or blog post about the individual (if it exists) may be accessed by clicking on ‘webpage link’.
Abraham Poliak
More Info: webpage link
Alexander Gerard
More Info: webpage link
Alexander Hamilton & Graves Chamney Haughton
Angus C. Graham
More Info: webpage link
Bernard Quaritch
More Info: webpage link
Brian Houghton Hodgson
More Info: webpage link
Clinton Thomas Dent
More Info: webpage link
Colonel Sir John Fisher Turner
More Info: webpage link
Daniel John Gogerly
More Info: webpage link
David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer & Emily Overend Lorimer
More Info: webpage link
Dora Gordine
More Info: webpage link
Edward Rehatsek
More Info: webpage link
Edward Walter Hutchinson
More Info: webpage link
Edward William Lane
More Info: webpage link
Edward William West
More Info: webpage link
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
More Info: webpage link
Gerald Tibbetts
More Info: webpage link
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
More Info: webpage link
Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales
More Info: webpage link
Hugh George Rawlinson
More Info: webpage link
James Caulfeild
More Info: webpage link
James Low
More Info: webpage link
John Cecil Cloake
More Info: webpage link
John Drew Bate
More Info: webpage link
John Hansman and David Stronach
Major General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid
More Info: webpage link
Major J.R. Cunningham
More Info: webpage link
Major-General Thomas Hardwicke
Maurice Patrick O’Connor Tandy
Michael John Rowlandson
More Info: webpage link
Ram Gharib Chaube
More Info: webpage link
Raymond Head
More Info: webpage link
Richard Francis Burton
More Info: webpage link
Samuel Davies
More Info: webpage link
Sir Aurel Stein
More Info: webpage link
Sir Henry Miers Elliot
More Info: webpage link
Sir Michael Cavanagh Gillett
More Info: webpage link
Sir William Jones & Lady Anna Maria (Shipley) Jones
More Info: webpage link
Thomas Manning
More Info: webpage link
William Edward David Allen
More Info: webpage link
William Pettigrew
More Info: webpage link