English-born churchman, travel writer and Church of Ireland bishop (1704-1765)
Richard Pococke
Richard Pococke in Oriental Costume, 1738 — by Jean-Étienne Liotard.
Born
(1704-11-19)19 November 1704 Southampton, England
Died
25 September 1765(1765-09-25) (aged 60) Charleville Castle, near Tullamore, Ireland
Nationality
English
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Genre
Travel writer and diarist
Richard Pococke (19 November 1704 – 25 September 1765)[1] was an English-born churchman, inveterate traveller and travel writer. He was the Bishop of Ossory (1756–65) and Meath (1765), both dioceses of the Church of Ireland. However, he is best known for his travel writings and diaries.
RichardPococke (19 November 1704 – 25 September 1765) was an English-born churchman, inveterate traveller and travel writer. He was the Bishop of Ossory...
of Milles the younger, married Reverend RichardPococke LL.B. (1660–1710) and had the Rt. Rev. RichardPococke (1704–1765), who, having been educated by...
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The temple resurfaces in the records of the modern era in 1737 with RichardPococke, a British traveller, who visited the site. Several visitations followed...
Marsyas river (named after Marsyas). The same tributary was drawn by RichardPococke to the east of the Orontes in the al-Ghab plain near Apamea. "Asi-Orontes...
The Pococke Kition inscriptions were a group of 31 Phoenician and 2 non-Phoenician inscriptions found in Cyprus and published by RichardPococke in 1745...
more on Libanus". Jean de la Roque in 1722 found 20 trees. In 1738 RichardPococke provided a detailed description. "They form a grove about a mile in...
(1718 and 1720–21), Granger (1731), Frederick Louis Norden (1737–38), RichardPococke (1738), James Bruce (1769), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt...
Scotorum, (1527), book 7, chapter 16 Daniel Kemp, Tours in Scotland by RichardPococke (SHS: Edinburgh, 1887), p. 209: RIB 2173. Distance Slab of the Twentieth...
extent were well behaved, such as Thomas Pelham, and scholars, such as RichardPococke, who wrote lengthy letters of their Grand Tour experiences. Inventor...
to a later date and a different use: a letter by English traveller RichardPococke who visited the oratory in 1758, two years after it was discovered...
first party to publish (1744) an account of their visit was that of RichardPococke, William Windham and others, such as the Englishmen who visited the...
colossus Sailing card for the clipper ship Memnon Panoramic view 1743 by RichardPococke c.1800 from Description de l'Égypte c.1800 from Description de l'Égypte...
surroundings, such as Claude Sicard, Granger, Frederick Louis Norden, RichardPococke, Vivant Denon and others. By the 20th century, Luxor had become a major...
with regard to the Erechtheion. In this same spirit came the work of RichardPococke, who published the first reconstruction of the temple in 1745 and who...
Ottoman period, presumably because it was either small or uninhabited. RichardPococke visited "Magdol" around 1740, where he noted "the considerable remains...
Theban Mapping Project. Retrieved 4 December 2006. Siliotti (1997), p.13 Richard H. Wilkinson; Kent Weeks (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the...
on the Wiltshire plains." RichardPococke, in a 1754 account, noted the figure was called "the Giant, and Hele", while Richard Gough, editor of the 1789...
items, which also provided jobs for women. The industry was noted by RichardPococke, who visited Bethlehem in 1727. Bethlehem is home to the Palestinian...
to the late 20th Dynasty. It was visited by RichardPococke, Jean-François Champollion and Karl Richard Lepsius, and briefly studied by Edward R. Ayrton...