Quotes:Kinneir, Sir John Macdonald

Zirkoff, Boris

Kinneir, Sir John Macdonald. English Lieut.-Col., traveller and diplomat, b. at Carnden, Feb. 3, 1782; d. at Tabriz, June 11, 1830. Captain in the 24th Madras native infantry, 1818; attached to Sir John Malcolm’s mission in Persia, 1808-09. Travelled extensively through the Orient and was envoy to Persia, 1824. Took part in peace negotiations between that country and Russia, 1828. Author of: Journey Through Asia Minor, etc., London, 1818.—*A Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire, London, 1813.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 533