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'''Mansel Longworth Dames''' (1850–1922) was a scholar of oriental and Portuguese languages.

Longworth Dames was born in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] in 1850, the eldest son of George Longworth Dames and Caroline Amelia Brunswick.<ref name=temple>{{cite journal | last1=Temple | first1=R.C. | last2=Howorth | first2=H.H. | year=1922 | title= Obituaries: Mansel Longworth Dames | journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland| volume=54 | issue=2 | pages=301–305 | jstor=25209902 | doi=10.1017/S0035869X0015049X | doi-access=free }}</ref> Longworth Dames passed the [[Indian Civil Service]] examination in 1868, and on his arrival in India in 1870 was posted to the [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]. He served continuously till his retirement in 1897, apart from in 1879 when he was on special duty with the troops during the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]].<ref name=crooke>{{cite journal | last=Crooke | first=W. | year=1922 | title=Obituary: Mansel Longworth Dames | journal=Folk-Lore | volume=33 | issue=1 | pages=131–132 | url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Folk-Lore/Volume_33/Obituary/Mansel_Longworth_Dames | doi=10.1080/0015587X.1922.9719234}}</ref>

Much of his service was passed in the trans-Indus district of [[Dera Ghazi Khan]], where he had opportunities for studying the [[Baluch people]] (Baloch) and became an authority on the various dialects of the [[Balochi language|Baluch]] and [[Pushtu language]]s.

In 1891 he published a Baluchi grammar and textbook, which was used for many years by students. He contributed in 1904 to the monograph series of the [[Royal Asiatic Society]] an account of the Baluch, and in the following year the Royal Asiatic and the Folk-Lore Societies jointly published in two volumes his ''Popular Poetry of the Baluchis''. In 1903 he contributed to the Folk-Lore Journal an article on "Folk-Lore of the Azores." He was an ardent student of [[Buddhist art]] on the north-west frontier of India, and brought with him from there a fine collection of sculpture of the Gandhara period. He also did valuable service in rearranging the Buddhist rooms of the [[British Museum]]. For more than twenty years he served the Royal Asiatic Society, for part of the time as a Vice-President and Joint-Treasurer, and in 1921 he acted as Honorary Secretary.

After his retirement he prepared several important articles for the ''[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]'' on subjects relating to that part of northern India which he had studied so closely. Besides Oriental languages he was an excellent [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] scholar, and his wide knowledge of Portuguese literature, and of the philology and geography of India, was illustrated in his translation and annotations of [[Duarte Barbosa|The Book of Duarte Barbosa]], edited for the [[Hakluyt Society]] in 1918–21. He compiled a memoir on the Portuguese and German colonies in Africa for the use of the 1919 [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Peace Congress at Versailles]]. He was also a member of the [[Royal Numismatic Society]] and possessed a fine collection of oriental coins.

Longworth Dames became a member of the [[Folk-Lore Society]] in 1892 and served for many years on the Council.<ref name=crooke/>

In 1877 he married Mary Jane Ivens. They had one daughter.<ref name=temple/> Longworth Dames died in [[Guildford]] on 8 January 1922.

==Selected publications==
*{{cite book | last=Longworth Dames| first=Mansel | year=1922 | origyear=1891 | title=A Text Book of the Balochi language : consisting of miscellaneous stories, legends, poems and Balochi-English vocabulary | place=Lahore | publisher= Printed at the Punjab Government Press | url=https://archive.org/stream/textbookofbaloch00damerich#page/n5/mode/2up }}
*{{cite book |last=Longworth Dames | first=Mansel |year=1904 |title=The Baloch Race: A Historical and Ethnological Sketch |series= Asiatic Society Monographs. Vol. IV | publisher=Royal Asiatic Society | place=London |url=https://archive.org/stream/balochraceahist01damegoog#page/n8/mode/2up }}
*{{cite book |last=Longworth Dames | first=Mansel |year=1907 |title=Popular Poetry of the Baloches (Volume 1) |series= Asiatic Society Monographs. Vol. IX | publisher=Royal Asiatic Society | place=London |url=https://archive.org/stream/popularpoetryba00damegoog#page/n8/mode/2up }}
*{{cite journal | last=Longworth Dames | first=Mansel | year=1908 | title=The mint of Kuraman, with special reference to the coins of the Qarlughs and Khwarizm-Shahs | journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland | volume=40 | issue=2 | pages=389–408 | jstor=25210587 | doi=10.1017/S0035869X00080539 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/2064461 }}
*{{cite book | last=Longworth Dames | first=Mansel | date=1918–1921 | title=The Book of Duarte Barbosa : an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants (2 Volumes) | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.47302 | publisher=Hakluyt Society | place=London | oclc=3640216 }}
*{{cite journal | last=Longworth Dames | first=Mansel | year=1921 | title=The Portuguese and Turks in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century | journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland | volume=53 | issue=1 | pages=1–28 | jstor=25209694 | doi=10.1017/S0035869X00062870 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/1746197 }}

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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Mansel Longworth Dames}}

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