Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (18 December 1854 – 29 December 1931) was a British orientalist and archaeologist. Poole was from a famous orientalist family as his paternal grandmother

Sophia Lane Poole Sophia Lane Poole (1804–1891) was an English orientalist. She was the estranged wife of Edward Poole and sister of the famous orientalist Edward William Lane, who suggested that she and her sons join him in Egypt so that she could report on th ...

, uncle

Reginald Stuart Poole Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 18328 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was from a famous Orientalist family as his mother Sophia Lane Poole, his uncle Edward William Lane and ...

and great-uncle

Edward William Lane Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. He is known for his ''Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians'' and the '' Arabic-English Lexicon,'' as well as his translati ...

were famous for their work in this field. His other great-uncle was

Richard James Lane Richard James Lane (16 February 1800 – 21 November 1872) was a prolific British engraver and lithographer. The National Portrait Gallery has some 850 lithographs of his portraits and figure studies, done between 1825 and 1850. The images incl ...

, a distinguished Victorian lithographer and engraver.

Biography

Born in London, England, from 1874 to 1892 he worked in the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

, and after that in Egypt researching on

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. From 1897 to 1904 he had a chair as Professor of Arabic studies at

Dublin University The University of Dublin ( ga, Ollscoil Átha Cliath), corporately designated the Chancellor, Doctors and Masters of the University of Dublin, is a university located in Dublin, Ireland. It is the degree-awarding body for Trinity College Dubl ...

. He was married to Charlotte Bell Wilson from 1879 until her death in 1905. The couple had three sons and a daughter; his eldest son predeceased him while of his other two sons,

Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' an ...

was a Royal Navy officer and

Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*k ...

was a forester who did much work in Australia.

Bibliography

Books

* Completed the First Book of the '' Arabic-English Lexicon'', left unfinished by his uncle, E. W. Lane. * ''Coins of the Urtuki Turkumans'',

International Numismata Orientalia The International Numismata Orientalia was an important series of publications relating to numismatics of the Middle East and South Asia, with articles contributed by specialist numismatists, published by Messrs Nicholas Trübner, Trübner & Co., ...

, part 2 1875 *''The Life of Edward William Lane'' (1877) *''The People of Turkey'' (editor) (1878) *''Lane's Selection From the Kuran'' (1879) *''Egypt'' (1881) *''Le Korân, sa poésie et ses lois'' (1882) *''Studies in a Mosque'' (

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

, February 1883) *''Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt'', D. Appleton: New York (1883) *''Social Life in Egypt: A Description of the Country & Its People'' (1884) *''The Life of the late General F.R. Chesney'' (editor) (1885) *''The Story of the Moors in Spain'' (1886) *''Turkey'' (1888) *
''Sir Richard Church''
(1890) *''The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad'' (1893) *''The Mohammedan Dynasties: Chronological and Genealogical Tables with Historical Introductions'' (1894) ** *''Babar'',

Rulers of India series The ''Rulers of India'' was a biographical book series edited by William Wilson Hunter and published from the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Hunter himself contributed the volumes on Dalhousie (1890) and Mayo (1891) to the series. Background William ...

(1899) *''History of Egypt in the Middle Ages'' (1901) *''Medieval India under Mohammedan Rule, AD 712-1764'' (1903) *''Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem'' (1903) *''The Story of Cairo'' (1906) * *''Life of Sir Harry Parkes'' with

F.V. Dickins Frederick Victor Dickins (24 May 1838 – 16 August 1915) was a British naval surgeon, barrister, orientalist and university administrator. He is now remembered as a translator of Japanese literature. Life Dickins was born at 44 Connaught Terr ...

(1894) *

Articles

* Approximatel
72 entries
(up to 1901) in ''

Dictionary of National Biography The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (''ODNB'') was published on 23 September ...

''Author: Stanley Lane-Poole
Retrieved 29 November 2020. * *Introduction to 1913 edition of

Richard Francis Burton Sir Richard Francis Burton (; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar,and soldier. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary kn ...

(1856), ''Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah'' , 3 volumes.

Edited

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References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lane-Poole, Stanley 1854 births 1931 deaths Artists' Rifles soldiers British Arabists British Egyptologists British Indologists British lexicographers British numismatists British orientalists Employees of the British Museum Historians of the Middle East Lane family