Sir Edward Denison Ross
(1871-1940), OrientalistSitter in 11 portraits
An Orientalist and one of the world's foremost linguists, specialising in languages of the Far East. He could read forty-nine languages, and speak thirty of them. From 1896 until 1901 he was Professor of Persian at University College, London. Taking leave in 1897, he travelled extensively in central Asia and Persia. He spent the years 1901 to 1914 in India, firstly as principal of the Calcutta Madrasa (1901-11), and later as keeper of the records of the Government of India. In 1916 he was appointed the first Director (and simultaneously Professor of Persian) of the newly established School of Oriental Studies in the University of London.
Sir Edward Denison Ross; William Wymark Jacobs
by Sir David Low
pencil, 1930s?
NPG 4529(309)
by Frank Kovacs
plaster medallion, circa 1939
NPG 4203a
by Frank Kovacs
bronze medallion, circa 1939
NPG 4203
by Helen McDougall Campbell
pencil, 1939
NPG 3981
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 14 January 1938
NPG x153328
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 14 January 1938
NPG x153329
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 14 January 1938
NPG x153330
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 14 January 1938
NPG x153331
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