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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Keith-Falconer    
First Name(s)  Ion Grant Neville    
Titles  Hon.    
Year of Birth  1856    
Year of Death  1887    
Entry  Born July 5, 1856, third son of the Earl of Kintore : educated at Cheam, Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge : studied Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic : gained the Tyrwhitt University Hebrew Scholarship and a first-class in the Semitic Languages tripos : came under the influence of General C. G. Gordon (q.v.) R.E. in 1880- 1 : studied Arabic at Assiout on the Nile, 1881-2 : was University Examiner in 1883-4 : determined to go to Aden as Missionary to the Arabs : went out for 6 months to Aden experimentally, 1885-6 : was formally appointed on May 26, 1886, by the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland to found and carry on a Mission to the Arab Muhammadans : he was appointed Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge in 1886 : went to Aden again, Dec. 1886 : lived in a temporary abode at Sheikh Othman, nine miles inland from Aden, to learn Somali : he soon suffered from fever and yielded to successive attacks, dying on May 11, 1887. The Keith-Falconer Mission has since continued there. He translated the Syriac version of the Fables of Bidpai 1885. He was also a great cyclist : and performed a number of feats, breaking previous records of time and distance : he was President of the London Bicycle Club, 1877-86.     
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