Quotes:Ouseley, William

Zirkoff, Boris

Ouseley, Sir William. English Orientalist, b. in Monmouthshire in 1767; d. at Boulogne in Sept., 1842. Was educated privately until 1787, when he went to Paris to study. After a short time in military service, he sold out and went to Leyden to resume Oriental, and especially, Persian studies. Published, 1795, his Persian. Miscellanies, on the subject of Persian handwritings. His great scholastic achievements brought him various degrees and a knighthood (1800). He accompanied his brother, Sir Gore Ouseley, on his mission to the Shâh of Persia, 1810, where he remained for three years. The account of this journey is contained in his Travels in Various Countries of the East, etc. (1819, 1821, 1823, 3 vols.). He also published *Oriental Collections (1797-99, 3 vols.), and contributed extensively to the Transactions of the Royal Soc. of Lit.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 517