Military or Naval
[WILSON
(Sir Charles William, 1836-1905, Major General, Geographer and Archaeologist)]
Unsigned carte-de-visite photo
showing him head and shoulders in uniform, 4 x 2½, no place, no date but circa
Item Date: 1885
£75
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Background
Wilson was appointed director of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland and was director-general from 1886 to 1894. He was the editor of Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc. in 1895. In the book, he gave encyclopaedic information about the societies in Anatolia, Kurdistan, Transcaucasia, Syria, Mesopotamia and Iran and many settlements in this geography.red
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