GB 0102 PP MS 66 - Lorimer, Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson

44 boxes, 27 small cigar boxes

Formerly MS 181247.
GB 0102 PP MS 66 Created c1906-1948 Collection (fonds) 44 boxes, 27 small cigar boxes Lorimer , David Lockhart Robertson , 1876-1962 , Lieutenant-Colonel , civil servant and linguist
David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer was born on 24 December 1876. He entered the Indian Army in 1896. From 1898 to 1903 he served with the QVO Corps of Guides, and was seconded with the Khalibar Rifles from 1901 to 1903. He entered the Indian Political Service in 1903, serving with them until 1924. His posts included HBMS Vice-Consul for Arabistan (1903-1909); Political Agent, Bahrein (1911-1912); HM Consul, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan, and ex-officio Assistant to the Political Resident, Persian Gulf (1912-1914); Assistant Political Agent, Chitral (1915); on field service with the IEFD, Mesopotamia, and Civil Governor Amara (1915-1916); HM Consul Kerman and Persian Baluchistan (1916-1917); Political Agent, Loralai, Baluchistan (1920); and Political Agent, Gilgit (1920-1924). Lorimer was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 1933-1935. He also received an honorary fellowship of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1953.

Lorimer's publications included Syntax of Colloquial Pashtu (1915); Persian Tales (1919); The Phonology of the Bakhtiari, Badakshani, and Madaglashti Dialects of Modern Persian (1922); The Burushaski Language, volumes I and II (1935), and volume III (1938); The Dumaki Language (1939); The Wakhi Language (1958).

Formerly MS 181247.

Bequeathed to SOAS in 1962.

Papers of Lt-Col David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, c1906-1948, comprising linguistic papers relating to his work on Burushaski, Khowar, Shina, Bakhtiari, Kermani Persian, and Gabri; photographs and 22 reels of cinefilm of a field trip to the Hunza Valley (north west Pakistan), 1934-1935; other photographs and glass plate negatives, including Persia, among them images of people, buildings and places; Hunza rock and seed samples.

The bulk of the material has been arranged into groups according to dialect/language.

Unrestricted. The cinefilms are not for consultation: readers should view the VHS copies.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
English, also Burushaski, Khowar, Shina, Bakhtiari, Kermani Persian, and Gabri

Unpublished handlist.

There are microfilms of parts of the collection (School of Oriental and African Studies, M5780-1) and VHS copies of the cinefilms.

The School of Oriental and African Studies Library (Art and Archaeology section) holds Lorimer material, comprising c400 3/4-inch slides, mainly of Hunza in Kashmir and Iran in the 1920s and 1930s. A catalogue of the collection, Annotations to the late Col David L R Lorimer's list of captions in his catalogue of slides for Hunza in the 1920s and 1930s, prepared by Julie Flowerday, is available from the Art and Archaeology section.

The British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, holds family correspondence, 1919-1933 (Ref: MSS Eur F 177), and correspondence and papers, 1921-1957 (Ref: MSS Eur D 1168).

Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. 15 May 2000, revised Jan 2002 Asia Biology Botany Field work Film media Flora Hunza Valley Indo-european languages Information media Iranic languages Linguistics Linguists Lorimer , David Lockhart Robertson , 1876-1962 , Lieutenant-Colonel , civil servant and linguist Pakistan Persia Persian Petrology Photographs Plants Research work Rocks Social scientists South Asia Vegetation Visual materials

Bequeathed to SOAS in 1962.

Papers of Lt-Col David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, c1906-1948, comprising linguistic papers relating to his work on Burushaski, Khowar, Shina, Bakhtiari, Kermani Persian, and Gabri; photographs and 22 reels of cinefilm of a field trip to the Hunza Valley (north west Pakistan), 1934-1935; other photographs and glass plate negatives, including Persia, among them images of people, buildings and places; Hunza rock and seed samples.

The bulk of the material has been arranged into groups according to dialect/language.

Unrestricted. The cinefilms are not for consultation: readers should view the VHS copies.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

• English

• Latin

English, also Burushaski, Khowar, Shina, Bakhtiari, Kermani Persian, and Gabri

The School of Oriental and African Studies Library (Art and Archaeology section) holds Lorimer material, comprising c400 3/4-inch slides, mainly of Hunza in Kashmir and Iran in the 1920s and 1930s. A catalogue of the collection, Annotations to the late Col David L R Lorimer's list of captions in his catalogue of slides for Hunza in the 1920s and 1930s, prepared by Julie Flowerday, is available from the Art and Archaeology section.

Unpublished handlist.

There are microfilms of parts of the collection (School of Oriental and African Studies, M5780-1) and VHS copies of the cinefilms.

The British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, holds family correspondence, 1919-1933 (Ref: MSS Eur F 177), and correspondence and papers, 1921-1957 (Ref: MSS Eur D 1168).

• English