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Richard Pococke
Richard Pococke in Oriental Costume, 1738 — by Jean-Étienne Liotard.
Richard Pococke in Oriental Costume, 1738
— by Jean-Étienne Liotard.
Born(1704-11-19)19 November 1704
Southampton, England
Died25 September 1765(1765-09-25) (aged 60)
Charleville Castle, near Tullamore, Ireland
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
GenreTravel 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.

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with regard to the Erechtheion. In this same spirit came the work of Richard Pococke, who published the first reconstruction of the temple in 1745 and who...

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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...

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on the Wiltshire plains." Richard Pococke, in a 1754 account, noted the figure was called "the Giant, and Hele", while Richard Gough, editor of the 1789...

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to the late 20th Dynasty. It was visited by Richard Pococke, Jean-François Champollion and Karl Richard Lepsius, and briefly studied by Edward R. Ayrton...

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