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{{short description|British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = Sir Gore Ouseley, Bt
| image = D02b 10 ebay image 144-1830-Engraving-Sir-Gore-Ouseley-Bart.JPG
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Sir Gore Ouseley with two distinguished orders
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1770|6|24}}
| birth_place = [[Limerick]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1844|11|18|1770|6|24}}<ref name="iran">[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ouseley-sir-gore Gore-Ouseley at Iranica.com] accessed 12 September 2007</ref>
| death_place = [[Beaconsfield]], Buckinghamshire
| education =
| occupation = Trader, diplomat and linguist
| spouse = Harriet Georgina Whitelocke
| parents = Captain Ralph Ouseley<ref name="EB1911">1911 ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' – entry for Sir [[William Ouseley]]</ref>
| children = Four sons (two in India, two in England), three daughters, inc. [[Frederick Ouseley]]
}}

'''Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Baronet''' [[Royal Guelphic Order|GCH]], [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] (24 June 1770 – 18 November 1844), was a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat. He was born in 1770 and died at Hall Barn Park, [[Beaconsfield]], Buckinghamshire in 1844. He negotiated [[Treaty of Gulistan|an important treaty]] between Russia and [[Persia]] in 1813 which redrew their common borders.

==Early life==
Sir Gore Ouseley was born in Limerick<ref>Some sources say Monmouthshire</ref> in Ireland to [[Ralph Ouseley (1739)|Ralph]] and Elizabeth (born Holland) Ouseley. Gore's father's family was originally from Shropshire. Gore and his brother were tutored at home in the company of brother, [[William Ouseley|William]] and his cousin, [[Gideon Ouseley]]. All three had notable careers.<ref>R. W. Ferrier, 'Ouseley, Sir Gore, first baronet (1770–1844)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20955, accessed 10 Nov 2011]</ref>

==India==
Whilst serving the British Government and posted in [[Lucknow]] he became a friend of the local Nawab [[Saadat Ali Khan II|Saadat Ali Khan]]<ref name="nic">[http://asi.nic.in/ncf/Uttar_Pradesh.pdf nic.in] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410103001/http://asi.nic.in/ncf/Uttar_Pradesh.pdf |date=10 April 2009 }} accessed 10 September 2007</ref> and was responsible for building a palace called [[Dilkusha Kothi]] on the banks of the [[River Gomti|Gomti]] near [[Lucknow]]. This palace stood for about fifty years until it was damaged in the [[Siege of Lucknow]]. The palace was a copy of the [[English Baroque]] [[stately home]] of [[Seaton Delaval Hall]].
He made his name in India where he was appointed a Major-Commander. He was made a baronet in 1808 with the recommendation of [[Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley|Lord Wellesley]]. While in India, he fathered 2 sons, William Martin Claude Ouseley (AKA William Claude Ouseley (b 1799) and Ralph Ouseley (b 1800). Ref - John Mitchiner (2009) THE OUSELEYS – A FAMILY INVOLVEMENT WITH INDIA, Asian Affairs, 40:1, 1-14, DOI: 10.1080/03068370802658633.

==Persia==
[[File:Malcom at the court of Fath Ali Shah in 1808.jpg|thumb|The English delegation at the Court of [[Fath Ali Shah]] in 1808: [[John Malcolm]], [[Harford Jones]] and Gore Ouseley.]]
He served as ambassador to Persia from 1810 where he was involved with negotiating treaties principally with Persia and Russia. He was accompanied by his brother as secretary, [[William Ouseley|Sir William Ouseley]],<ref name="EB1911"/> who like Gore was a keen [[oriental studies|orientalist]]. (He was the first ambassador to Persia since [[Sir Dodmore Cotton]] was sent by [[Charles I of England|Charles I]]).<ref name="sufi"/> Nominally he was supporting the Shah of Persia ([[Fat′h Ali Shah Qajar]]). The most important was The [[Treaty of Gulistan]]: Гюлистанский договор; {{lang-fa|عهدنامه گلستان}}) which was prepared by the ambassador with the help of the [[British Foreign Office]]. The treaty confirmed the inclusion of modern-day [[Azerbaijan]], [[Republic of Dagestan|Daghestan]] and Eastern [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] into the [[Russian Empire]]. This was agreed on 24 October 1813. Ouseley may have visited [[Persepolis]] during his stay in Persia, as a group of reliefs from the site collected by him were donated to the [[British Museum]] in 1825.<ref>[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=Gore+Ouseley+Persepolis British Museum Collection]</ref>
[[File:Banyan botanical c1800-1830.jpg|left|thumb|Banyan leaves and fruit – A watercolour from the collection of Gore Ouseley – now at [[Kew Gardens]].<ref>[http://www.plantcultures.org/pccms/action/showItem;jsessionid=DDD1641AB48CC82296AF5E8FFA66712F?id=25 Banyan leaves and fruit – bio of watercolour, Kew Gardens] accessed 12 September 2007</ref>]]

==Russia==
After his brother returned to England in 1813 to write, he left the next year, stopping off in [[St Petersburg]]. Whilst he was in Russia, he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Russian [[Order of St. Alexander Nevsky]]. He was also responsible for publishing an early translation of the New Testament into Persian. The translation had been made by a friend, the Reverend [[Henry Martyn]], and Mirza Saiyad Ali Kahn. Martyn had died on his way back to England so Gore Ouseley had agreed to arrange publication of the manuscript. This he did in St Petersburg, carrying out the proof reading personally. This version was later refined and republished in [[Calcutta]].<ref>[http://www.ilab.org/services/catalogues.php?catnr=1457&membernr=789 ILAB online catalogue] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003145252/http://www.ilab.org/services/catalogues.php?catnr=1457&membernr=789 |date=3 October 2006 }} accessed 12 September 2007</ref>

==England==
On his return to England in 1805, Ouseley was not made a peer as he had expected (and despite a recommendation). He brought his two sons with him back to England, and married Georgina Whitelocke. They had a further six children, none of whom married. The only one of his children to marry was his first son born in India, William Claude Ouseley who had since immigrated to Nova Scotia Canada with the 96th Nova Scotia Fencibles, and married Rosina Weeks. William remained in Canada where his descendants remain. His other son born in India, Ralph, became a Doctor and returned to India, subsequently dying there in 1823. See: John Mitchiner (2009) THE OUSELEYS – A FAMILY INVOLVEMENT WITH
INDIA, Asian Affairs, 40:1, 1-14, DOI: 10.1080/03068370802658633

Ouseley had taught himself [[Sanskrit]], [[Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]], and for enjoyment, he and his brother William advanced the study of Persia. William published a number of books,<ref name="EB1911"/> but those by Gore were not published until after his death.

In 1833, the family were living at Hall Barns, and he enjoyed gardening and building work as he had done in India.<ref>JC Loudon's Gardener's Magazine December 1833</ref> In 1835, he served as the [[High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire]].

He became President of the Society for the Publication of the Oriental Texts in 1842 and he is credited with the society's publication of ''Gulistan of Sa'di'' by [[Saadi (poet)|Sa'di]], which had a translation by Francis Gladwin.<ref name="sufi">''[http://www.sufism.ru/eng/txts/western.htm Western Encounters with Persian Sufi Literature]'' by Farhang Jahanpour accessed 12 September 2007</ref>

There is a monument to his memory in [[Hertingfordbury]] Church, [[Hertfordshire]] and his collection of Mughal paintings are at the [[Bodleian Library]] in Oxford (they were donated in 1859 by a Bengal civil servant, Mr JB Elliott).<ref>[http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/collections/collection.php?ID=244&Browse=Country&Country=NPL MappingAsia] accessed 12 September 2007</ref>

His son, The Revd Canon Professor Sir [[Frederick Ouseley|Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley]] (12 August 1825 – 6 April 1889) was an English composer, organist, and musicologist.

==Books==
*"Remarks on the Statistics and Political Institutions of the United States, with some Observations on the Ecclesiastical System of America, her sources of Revenue, &c", 1832
*''Biographical Notices of Persian Poets'', 1846 (published 2 years after his death)

==Honours==
{{commons category}}Ouseley was created a [[Ouseley baronets|Baronet]], of Claremont in the County of Hertford, in 1808. He was sworn of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] in 1820 and created a Knight Grand Cross of the [[Royal Guelphic Order]] in 1831. Among his foreign decorations were the Persian [[Order of the Lion and the Sun]] and the Russian Grand Cordon of the [[Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky|Order of St Alexander Nevsky]]. He was [[High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire]] in 1835.

Ouseley was a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] and a [[Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries]]. He was the President of the [[Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts]].

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