Edward Denison Ross

Sir Edward Denison Ross (6 June 1871 – 20 September 1940) was an orientalist and linguist, specializing in languages of the Far East. He was the first director of the University of London’s School of Oriental Studies (now SOAS, University of London) from 1916 to 1937.[1][2]

Edward Denison Ross (John Lavery, (1922)

Ross read in 49 languages, and spoke in 30. He was director of the British Information Bureau for the Near East. Along with Eileen Power, he wrote and edited a 26-volume series published by George Routledge & Sons, The Broadway Travellers.[3] The series included the diary of the 17th century naval chaplain Henry Teonge. Ross joined the staff of the British Museum in 1914, appointed to catalogue the collections of Sir Aurel Stein.[4] He was an original trustee of the E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series. In 1934 Edward Denison Ross attended Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration in Tehran.

Sir Edward Denison Ross learning Tibetan with Lama Lobzang (probably Darjeeling 1907)

References
  1. Galambos, "Touched a Nation's heart: Sir E. Denison Ross and Alexandre Csoma de Koros" Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Third Series) 21.3 (2011): 366
  2. A photograph of Ross teaching Persian at SOAS, https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/gallery/2016/feb/09/one-hundred-years-of-soas-in-pictures
  3. Current Biography 1940 p. 697.
  4. Ross's archives are held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb102-ppms8

Further reading
  • "Sir Edward Dennison Ross (1871 - 1940): A Persian Scholar and Orientalist Par Excellence" by R M Chopra, INDO-IRANICA, Vol.LXVI, Nos.1 to 4, 2013
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