Edward Denison Ross

He was the director of the British Information Bureau for the Near East. Ross wrote an Introduction to a reprint of George Sale's translation of the Quran. Along with Eileen Power, he wrote and edited a 26-volume series published by George Routledge & Sons, The Broadway Travellers. The series included the diary of the 17th-century naval chaplain Henry Teonge. Ross joined the staff of the British Museum in 1914, appointed to catalogue the collections of Sir Aurel Stein. He was an original trustee of the E. Gibb Memorial Series. In 1934, Edward Denison Ross attended Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration in Tehran. In January 1940, shortly after the outbreak of World War II in Europe, Ross was named head of the British Information Bureau at Istanbul with the rank of Counsellor. However, the loss of his wife Dora in April 1940 was more than he could bear, and Sir Denison himself died in Istanbul at age 69 in September 1940. He is buried at the Haydarpasha English Cemetery in Uskudar. • Illustration — Sir Edward Denison Ross learning Tibetan with Lama Lobqang (probably Darjeeling, 1907)

Edward Denison Ross worked in oriental studies, oriental languages and linguistics. He was employed by SOAS, University of London and British Museum.