Charles Henry Churchill

Colonel Charles Henry Spencer - Churchill ( born May 27, 1828 † April 3, 1877 ) was a British officer and diplomat and British consul in Syria.

Life

He was the grandson of George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough. His parents were Lord Charles Spencer - Churchill and Ethelred Catherine Benett.

As a British consul in Damascus Churchill called for already in the 1840s a Jewish state of Israel in Palestine. He wrote several important ( cultural) historical works on the Middle East, including an extensive biography of Abd el -Kader, whom he had known during his exile in Damascus.

He married on October 30, 1862 Rosalie Lowther.

Writings

• Mount Lebanon: A Ten Years ' Residence from 1842 to 1852, Describing the Manners, Customs, and Religion of its Inhabitants with a Full and Correct Account of the Druse religion and Containing Historical Records of the Mountain Tribes from Personal Intercourse With Their Chiefs and Other Authentic Sources. 3 volumes. Saunders & Otley, London 1853, facsimile reprint: . Elibron Classics, 2000-2002, ISBN 1-4021-1050-2 (Volume 1), ISBN 1-4021-1749-3 ( Volume 2 ) and ISBN 1-4021-0986 -5 (Band 3)
• The Druzes and the Maronites under the Turkish Rule from 1840 to 1860 Bernard Quaritch, London, 1862 facsimile reprint: .. Elibron Classics, 2001, ISBN 1-4021-3059-7.
• Life of Abd el-Kader: Ex -Sultan of the Arabs of Algeria: written from his own Dictation and compiled from other Authentic Sources. 8 volumes. Chapman and Hall, London, 1867.