Gore Ouseley
Sir Gore Ouseley 1st Baronet GCH ( * June 24, 1770 in Limerick, † November 18, 1844 in Hall Barn Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire ) was a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat.
Life
Gore Ouseley was the son of Elizabeth Holland and Ralph Ouseley. He was taught by his brother William and his cousin, Gideon Ouseley at home. He was married to Harriet Georgina Whitelocke. Her three daughters and two sons belonged to Frederick Ouseley.
He was employed by the British government in Lucknow, as the local Nawab Saadat Ali Khan II was his friend. Saadat Ali Khan II commissioned Gore Ouseley with the planning of his palace, Dilkusha Kothi on the banks of the Gomti near in Lucknow. This palace was damaged during the siege of Lucknow during the Sepoy rebellion in 1857. In India, Gore Ouseley was appointed Major and 1808 ennobled on the recommendation of Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley baronet.
From 1810 to 1814, he was ambassador in Tehran. He was accompanied by his brother, Secretary Sir William Ouseley, who, like Gore was an enthusiastic Orientalist.
Treaty of Gulistan
The interests of the British East India Company (EIC ) was a screening of British India from Europe. The Egyptian expedition was interpreted by the EIC in preparation for a franco- osman Sichen expedition against British India. 1807 launched agents, Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander I had agreed to join forces to attack British India. The Great Game numerous examples of power-political inefficiency. The use of Gore Ouseley, in mediating the peace of Gulistan, but it shows not only in this scale, a rarely reached makes polti exchanger efficiency. In other circumstances forced the EIC Nations Education and Napoleon Bonaparte applied this rule method up to the liberation wars in Europe. After the Russo- Persian War (1804-1813) mediated Ouseley, as a consultant of Fath Ali Shah, the peace of Gulistan between Alexander I of Russia and Fath Ali Shah. In the Treaty of Gulistan, a border between the Russian Empire and Persia has been set. The Shia Abbas Mirza of the peacock throne was promised towards his half-brother Mohammed Ali Mirza Sunnis. With the agreement of October 24, 1813 Transcaucasia Russia slammed as Persia.
His brother William Ouseley in 1813 returned to England and wrote books on Oriental Studies.
Mirza Saleh Shirazi was an advisor to Gore Ouseley with the Rev. Henry Martyn Kaplan EIC, BD (* February 18, 1781, † October 16, 1812 ) translated in Shiraz. a New Testament in the Persian language. Fath Ali Shah was at the instigation of Ouseley a review of the work and thanked in a letter for at Ouseley. 1814 went Ouseley with Mirza Ali Saiyad Khan to Saint Petersburg, where Ouseley was included in the Alexander Nevsky Order. Mirza Ali Saiyad Khan was Persian Ambassador St Petersburg in 1815 and continued the New Testament in Persian in Hebrew Letter.
Publications
- Gore Ouseley (ed. ); Mirza Seid Ali Khan, Rev. Henry Martyn: The New Testament in Persic. St. Petersburg 1815.