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	'''Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer''' [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]] (24 December 1876 in [[Dundee]] – 26 February 1962) was a member of the [[British Indian Army]], a political official in the British Indian government and a noted linguist.<ref>[http://squirrel.soas.ac.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='PP%20MS%2066') ''Lorimer, Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson'', School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Archive Catalogue]{{Dead link\|date=July 2019 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Indian Political Service extended to the Middle East, and he was British Political Representative in [[Cairo]] during the [[World War I\|First World War]].<ref name=UKArcF177>{{citation		'''Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer''' [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]] (24 December 1876 in [[Dundee]] – 26 February 1962) was a member of the [[British Indian Army]], a political official in the British Indian government and a noted linguist.<ref>[http://squirrel.soas.ac.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='PP%20MS%2066') ''Lorimer, Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson'', School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Archive Catalogue]{{Dead link\|date=July 2019 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Indian Political Service extended to the Middle East, and he was British Political Representative in [[Cairo]] during the [[World War I\|First World War]].<ref name=UKArcF177>{{citation
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'''Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (24 December 1876 in [[Dundee]] – 26 February 1962) was a member of the [[British Indian Army]], a political official in the British Indian government and a noted linguist.<ref>[http://squirrel.soas.ac.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='PP%20MS%2066') ''Lorimer, Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson'', School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Archive Catalogue]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Indian Political Service extended to the Middle East, and he was British Political Representative in [[Cairo]] during the [[World War I|First World War]].<ref name=UKArcF177>{{citation
| url = http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_13&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
| title = British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections; Private Papers [Mss Eur F175 - Mss Eur F199]
| contribution = Papers of Emily Overend Lorimer, author, editor of 'Basrah Times' 1916-17, wife of Lt-Col David Lorimer, Indian Political Service 1903-27 Mss Eur F177 1902-1949
| author = Emily Overend Lorimer
| publisher = National Archives (UK)}}</ref>

==Early life==
Lorimer was born near [[Dundee]] and was the son of a [[Presbyterian]] [[clergyman]] Robert Lorimer and his wife Isabella Lockhart Robertson. He was educated at the [[High School of Dundee]]. The family distinguished itself as colonial administrators and academics. His mother's family had long resided in [[India]] and in 1896 David Lorimer relocated to India following completion of his military training at [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Sandhurst]]. His siblings were all high achievers. His brothers [[John Gordon Lorimer (1870-1914)|Gordon]] and Bert also worked in the civil administration in the Indian Political Service.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=sWX9GoHX46QC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=David+Lockhart+Robertson+Lorimer&source=web&ots=2aGd1rnXi3&sig=SOVC1_B1ihwpzf-qDJduEftxS1o&hl=de Penelope Tuson: ''Playing the Game: The Story of Western Women in Arabia'', I.B.Tauris 2003] {{ISBN|1-86064-933-5}}</ref> Another, [[William Laughton Lorimer|William]], became Professor of Classics at [[University of St Andrews|St Andrews]] and translated the New Testament into Scots. He also had three sisters, [[Hilda Lockhart Lorimer|Hilda]] (Vice Principal of [[Somerville College, Oxford]]), Emilia (a poet), and Florence (who worked with [[Aurel Stein]] at the [[British Museum]]).<ref>For more details of the family, see "Stein's Recording Angel: Miss F.M.G. Lorimer" by [[Helen Wang]], Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Third Series, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Jul., 1998), pp. 207-228. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25183518</ref>

In 1910 Lorimer married Emily Overend of Dublin. [[Emily Overend Lorimer]] (1881–1949) was a noted journalist, writer and lecturer in [[German philosophy]] at [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville]].<ref>[http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/documentxsl.asp?com=1&i=1&nbKey=1&stylesheet=xsl\A2A_com.xsl&keyword=David%20Lockhart%20Robertson%20Lorimer&properties=0601 ''India Office Records: Private Papers <nowiki>[Mss Eur F175 - Mss Eur F199]</nowiki>'', British Library]</ref> In the late 1920s and 1930s she became one of the leading commentators in Britain on [[Nazism]] and translated works of [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref name=oxford>Dan Stone [https://archive.today/20130415160536/http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/4/504 The ‘Mein Kampf Ramp’: Emily Overend Lorimer and Hitler Translations in Britain] German History 2008 26(4):504-519.</ref> She translated other German authors for the [[Faber and Faber]] publishing house including [[Gustav Krist]]. She was also an Oxford philologist, editor of the "Basrah Times" during the First World War, 1916–17, and had links to the Red Cross.

== Military and political career ==

From 1898 to 1903, Lorimer served in the ''[[Corps of Guides (British India)|Q.V.O. Corps of Guides]]'', including a stint from 1901 to 1903 with the [[Khyber Rifles]]. From 1903 to 1924 he was on secondment to the [[Indian Political Service]], generally serving in the Persian Gulf, then being opened up to oil exploration. During his career, he held various offices, including [[Vice Consul]] in [[Khuzestan|Arabistan]] (Khuzestan Province) 1903–1909, Political Agent in [[Bahrain]] 1911-12 and [[consul (representative)|consul]] in [[Kerman]] and [[Balochistan (region)|Balochistan]] (1912–1914 and 1916–1917). Lorimer was the Political Agent in [[Gilgit]] from 1920 to 1924.<ref name=felmy>Sabine Felmy. Voices of the Nightingale Felmy. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997. p. 17</ref> During the First World War, he served in Cairo. He was appointed CIE in the [[1917 Birthday Honours]]. He retired from the Army in 1927.

== Scholarly work ==
In addition to his military and political activities, Lorimer was a noted scholar of the peoples of [[Hunza Valley|Hunza]] and Gilgit . He worked as a linguist with the languages of [[Iran]] and [[Pakistan]], including [[Khowar language|Khowar]], [[Shina language|Shina]], [[Bakhtiari people|Bakhtiari]], [[Wakhi language|Wakhi]] and the [[Persian language|Persian]] dialects of Kerman and [[Dari (Zoroastrian)|Gabri]]. He wrote a standard work on [[Burushaski]], a language spoken only in the [[Karakoram]] in what is today [[Pakistan]].

Lorimer was awarded the [[Leverhulme Trust|Leverhulme Research Fellowship]] in 1933-1935 and in 1953 he became an honorary member of the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) at the [[University of London]]. His notes and correspondence are now kept in a library at SOAS and in the collections of the [[British Library]].<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P17868 ''Person Details: Lorimer, David Lockhart Robertson (1876-1962) Lieutenant Colonel Indian Army Linguist'', The National Archives, Richmond, Surrey]</ref>

==List of publications ==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=cgyLQAAACAAJ&dq=%27%27Pashto,+Part+I:+Syntax+of+Colonial+Pashto&hl=en&ei=StkcTOTgCYe2NrXg2JIF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA Pashtu, Part I: Syntax of Colonial Pashtu with chapters on the Persian and Indian elements in the modern language] Oxford: [[Clarendon Press]], 1915
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=zodHAAAAYAAJ Persian Tales]. Together with [[Hilda Roberts]] (illustrations) and Emily Overend Lorimer (translation), [[Macmillan & Co.]] 1919
*The Phonology of the Bakhtiari, Badakshani, and Madaglashti Dialects of Modern Persian. London 1922
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=rVweAAAAIAAJ The Burushaski Language, Vol. I: Introduction and Grammar]. [[Aschehoug]], [[Oslo]] 1935
*The Burushaski Language, Vol.II: Histories. Aschehoug, Oslo 1935
*The Burushaski Language, Vol.II: Dictionary. 1938.
*The Dumki Language. 1939
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=--5jAAAAMAAJ The Wakhi Language]. 1958
* The papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Lockhart, primarily relating to his work on the Burushaski, Khowar, Shinaand Bakhtiari languages including photographs and film of field trips are held by [https://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/collections/a-z/l/ SOAS Archives].
* The Lorimer's Bakhtiari documentation was published in F. Vahman and G. Asatrian, ''Poetry of the Baxtiārīs: Love Poems, Wedding Songs, Lullabies, Laments'', Copenhagen, 1995.[https://books.google.com/books/about/Poetry_of_the_Baxti%C4%81r%C4%ABs.html?id=KKgypdL4gJoC]

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