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| Rev. George Percy Badger | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Event | |
| 1815 | Born. | ||
| 18?? | 18?? | Early years in Malta. | |
| 1835 | 1836 | At Beir?t, improving his Arabic. | |
| 1841 | Returned to London. | ||
| 1842 | 1844 | Delegate to the Nestorians of Kurdistan. | |
| 1842 | Ordained priest. | ||
| 1845 | Government chaplain at Bombay. | ||
| 1846 | Chaplain at Aden. | ||
| 1850 | Delegate to the Nestorians of Kurdistan. | ||
| 1852 | Wrote 'The Nestorians and their Rituals'. | ||
| 1860 | Coadjutor with Colonel (Sir) William Marcus Coghlan to settle the succession of the Sultanate of Zanzibar. | ||
| 1872 | 1873 | Advisor to Frere Mission to Zanzibar. | |
| 1873 | Knight commander of the order of the Crown of Italy. | ||
| 1878 | Negotiator regarding (unsuccessful) 'Mackinnon concession' at Zanzibar. | ||
| 1880 | Nominated by the Sultan of Zanzibar a knight of the Gleaming Star. | ||
| 1881 | Published 'An English-Arabic Lexicon'. | ||
| 21 February 1888 | Died. | ||
| He was the first Englishman to write about the Church of the East from real acquaintance, and also the first to make a serious case that its doctrine was not, from a catholic point of view, heretical. | |||
| Literature: (DNB). | |||
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