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William Gifford Palgrave NPG Ax17587

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington

Arabist and diplomat. The son of Sir Francis Palgrave, William Gifford Palgrave converted to Catholicism and became a Jesuit missionary in India and Syria. He narrowly escaped the massacre of Maronite Christians in 1861, travelled across Arabia in 1862-3 and published his observations. He left the Jesuit order in 1862 and served in various diplomatic posts. Often obliged to disguise himself on his travels, Palgrave evidently liked to see himself in Arabic dress. A medallion by Thomas Woolner shows him wearing a fez... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.