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
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
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Alexander Gerard
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Alexander Hamilton & Graves Chamney Haughton
Angus C. Graham
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Bernard Quaritch
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Brian Houghton Hodgson
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Clinton Thomas Dent
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Colonel Sir John Fisher Turner
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Daniel John Gogerly
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David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer & Emily Overend Lorimer
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Dora Gordine
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Edward Rehatsek
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Edward Walter Hutchinson
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Edward William Lane
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Edward William West
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Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
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Gerald Tibbetts
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Henry Thomas Colebrooke
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Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales
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Hugh George Rawlinson
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James Caulfeild
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James Low
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John Cecil Cloake
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John Drew Bate
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John Hansman and David Stronach
Major General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid
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Major J.R. Cunningham
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Major-General Thomas Hardwicke
Maurice Patrick O’Connor Tandy
Michael John Rowlandson
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Ram Gharib Chaube
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Raymond Head
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Richard Francis Burton
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Samuel Davies
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Sir Aurel Stein
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Sir Henry Miers Elliot
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Sir Michael Cavanagh Gillett
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Sir William Jones & Lady Anna Maria (Shipley) Jones
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Thomas Manning
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William Edward David Allen
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William Pettigrew
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