Edward Granville Browne & Alice Caroline Blackburne-Daniell

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Edward Granville, born 1862 in  Stouts Hill, Uley,

Gloucestershire married Alice Caroline Blackburne-Daniell, born 30/9/11879, in April 1806 at Kensington, London.

 

Edward was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond; Burnside's School in Berkshire; Eton College and then Newcastle College of Physical Science. He then read natural sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He also studied Arabic with Edward Henry Palmer and William Wright and Persian with Edward Byles Cowell, motivated by an interest in the Turkish people.

 

After graduating in 1882 he travelled to Constantinople. He then spent a further two years at Cambridge studying Indian languages, and also gained an M.B. in London. In 1887 he was made a Fellow of Pembroke, and then paid an extended visit to Persia. He returned to become university lecturer in Persian. In 1902 he was made Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic.  He was mainly responsible for the creation at Cambridge of a school of living oriental languages, in connection with the training of candidates for the Egyptian and Sudenese civil services, and the Lebanese consular service.

 

They had two children, Patrick & Edward Jnr.

 

Alice died on 28/6/1925 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the following year on 5/1/1926, Edward passed away at Cambridge in Cambridgeshire.  Leaving their two sons orphaned at 16 & 19 years of age.

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