David Lorimer
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David Robinson Lockhart "Lock" Lorimer (1876-1962) was a British officer, first in the Indian Army (1896) and then theI ndian Political Service (1903-27). The Indian Political Service extended to the Middle East, and he was British Political Representative in Cairo during the First World War.[1] In the 1920s and 1930s, he published on Asian languages.
His wife, Emily Overend Lorimer, unofficially but powerfully was his aide in Cairo; she had been a tutor at Oxford before they married and later an authority on Naziism. He also had a high regard for the knowledge of Gertrude Bell.[2]
They were both linguists, and he was known for publications about an language called Burushaski spoken in Hunza (in present-day Pakistan).[3]
References
- ↑ Emily Overend Lorimer, Papers of Emily Overend Lorimer, author, editor of 'Basrah Times' 1916-17, wife of Lt-Col David Lorimer, Indian Political Service 1903-27 Mss Eur F177 1902-1949, British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections; Private Papers [Mss Eur F175 - Mss Eur F199], National Archives (UK)
- ↑ Janet Wallach (1999), Desert Queen, Anchor Books, Random House, ISBN 1400096197, p. 149
- ↑ Julie Flowerday, Society and Environment Publications, Truman State University