William Gifford Palgrave
1826–88
Missionary, explorer, and diplomat. Jesuit missionary to Syria, 1855–61. Travelled through the Middle East disguised as a Syrian doctor and merchant in areas closed to Europeans, 1862–3. Published an account of his travels, Narrative of a year’s journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1865). Member of the British diplomatic corps, 1865–88. Brother of Francis Turner and Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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