Douglas Craven Phillott

Lieutenant-Colonel
Douglas Craven Phillott (28 June 1860 - 11 September 1930) was a British army officer who served in India and later as Consul in Persia. A scholar of
Urdu,
Persian and
Hindustani, he published numerous translations of literary and historical works. He was also interested in
falconry and wrote a translation of a Persian treatise on the subject.
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