He remains one of the most impressive of the forgotten European explorers of the Middle East. He was born in Westmoreland in 1692, and entered Queen’s College at Oxford in 1711. Graduating in 1716, he accepted a position with a British commercial post in Algiers; this gave him the opportunity for a meandering journey through Europe before commencing the assignment.
Quintus Curtius 
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