Year: 1925
Type: article
Abstract: By the death of Mr. William McDouall.who passed away at Khanikin in Iraq, on November 2nd, at the age of 69, the Royal Asiatic Society and the British community in Iraq and the Persian Gulf have lost one of their oldest members.He was the son of the Reverend W. S. McDouall, rector of Owsden, Suffolk, and descended on both sides from old Galloway families-McDouall, of Freugh, and Dalrymple Hay, of Dunragit Park, Wigtonshire.He was educated at Uppingham under Dr. Thring, and in 1875 went to the Persian Gulf on appointment to the Indo-European Telegraph Department.He served at Jask, Charbar, and Fao, amongst other stations, until his appointment in 1889 to Mohammerah, where he was the first incumbent of the Vice-Consulate established there in 1891 in connexion with the opening of the Karun to ships of all nations.He held this post, which was subsequently raised to the status of a Consulate, till 1909, when he was transferred to Karmanshah in a similar capacity.On his retirement, in 1917, from the Consular Service, he served in Mesopotamia
Author: A. T. Wilson
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4241983542