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Born March 28, 1787 • Dijon • France
Died October 5, 1821 (aged 34) • Shīrāz • Iran
Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Robert Koldewey
German architect and archaeologist
Robert Clive
Robert Clive
British colonial administrator
Warren Hastings, oil painting by Tilly Kettle; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Warren Hastings
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William Adams
English navigator
Sir John Hubert Marshall
British archaeologist
Stringer Lawrence, oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Stringer Lawrence
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Charles T. Metcalfe
Charles T. Metcalfe
British colonial official
Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet
British merchant
Job Charnock
British official
Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
British banker, politician, and naturalist
Sir Thomas Smythe
British entrepreneur
Sir John Child, Baronet
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Thomas Pitt, detail of a print after an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Thomas Pitt
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Fellows, pencil and chalk drawing by W. Brockedon; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Charles Fellows
British archaeologist
Percy Gardner
British archaeologist
Sir James Lancaster
English merchant
Ronald Montagu Burrows
British archaeologist