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	'''Sir Edmund Vivian Gabriel''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|CSI\|CMG\|CVO\|CBE\|VD\|FSA}} (28 March 1875 – 13 February 1950) was a ~~[[United Kingdom\|~~British]] [[civil servant]], [[army officer]], [[courtier]] and [[art collector]].		'''Sir Edmund Vivian Gabriel''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|CSI\|CMG\|CVO\|CBE\|VD\|FSA}} (28 March 1875 – 13 February 1950) was a British [[civil servant]], [[army officer]], [[courtier]] and [[art collector]].

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	His portrait by John Newman Holroyd is exposed at the [[Museum of the Order of St John]] in London.		His portrait by John Newman Holroyd is exposed at the [[Museum of the Order of St John]] in London.
			He received the King George VI Version of the [[Royal Household Long and Faithful Service Medal]] in 1945 for 20 years of service to the [[British Royal Family]] as [[Gentleman Usher\|Gentleman Usher in Ordinary]].

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==

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'''Sir Edmund Vivian Gabriel''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CSI|CMG|CVO|CBE|VD|FSA}} (28 March 1875 – 13 February 1950) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[civil servant]], [[army officer]], [[courtier]] and [[art collector]].

==Biography==
Edmund Vivian Gabriel was born on 28 March 1875. Educated at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College]], [[University of Cambridge]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]], 1896), he entered the [[Imperial Civil Service|Indian Civil Service]] in 1897 and the [[Indian Political Service]] in 1913. In his early years he served as [[attaché]] to the 1903 [[Coronation Durbar]], Political Advisor to [[Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana]], [[Prime Minister of Nepal]] (1907), [[Resident (title)|Resident]] of [[Rajputana Agency|Western Rajputana States]] (1908), and Chief Secretary, [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North-West Frontier Province]] (1910).

During the [[First World War]] he was first assigned to the Imperial General Staff, [[War Office]], in [[London]], where he was closely associated with [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|Lord Kitchener]], then [[Secretary of State for War]]. He subsequently joined the British Military Mission with the [[Italian Royal Army]], as the head of the intelligence section, and later served as liaison officer to the naval forces in the [[Aegean Sea]] (British Aegean Squadron). In 1917 he was deployed to [[Cairo]] and assigned to the [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force]]. On 11 December he entered [[Jerusalem]] with [[General]] [[Edmund Allenby]] and was appointed financial advisor and [[Administrator of the Government|assistant administrator]] of [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]] (then known as [[Occupied Enemy Territory Administration|Occupied Enemy Territory Administration South]]). In 1919 he was however asked to resign in reason of his pro-Arab views.

After the war he moved to Britain and maintained his services with the [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]], reaching the rank of [[colonel]]. His London residence was 40, [[Wilton Crescent]]. On 11 December 1924 he married Mabel McAfee, an American citizen, in a celebration held at [[Saint Thomas Church (Manhattan)|Saint Thomas Church]] in [[New York City]].
In 1925 he was appointed to [[King George V]]'s household as a [[Gentleman Usher|Gentleman Usher in Ordinary]], a title he maintained until his death. In the [[1937 Coronation Honours]] he was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] by [[King George VI]]. During the [[Second World War]] he was a member of the British Air Commission to the [[United States of America]].

Edmund Vivian Gabriel descended from the [[Gabrielli family|Gabrielli]], a [[nobility|noble]] [[Italy|Italian]] family from [[Gubbio]], a branch of which had settled in [[England]] in the 17th century. He maintained there a residence at 10, via Ducale, was honorary [[curator]] of the local ''Palazzo Ducale'', and supported the restoration of local artifacts and buildings. In the 1920s he decided to bequeath the collection of art he had gathered during his stay in [[Asian Art|Asia]] to the municipality of Gubbio: the ''Vivian Gabriel Oriental Collection of Tibetan, Nepalese, Chinese and Indian Art'' is today exposed in the [[Palazzo dei Consoli]] in the [[Umbria]]n hilltown. For this and his services during the war he was appointed by [[King of Italy|King]] [[Victor Emmanuel III]] Officer, [[Order of the Crown of Italy]], and Officer, [[Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus]]. He also was a Knight of Justice of the [[Venerable Order of Saint John|Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem]]. He was also awarded the [[Order of Saint Agatha]] by the Republic of [[San Marino]].

He died in [[Antigua]], [[Leeward Islands]], [[British West Indies]] on 13 February 1950, at the [[Government House (Antigua & Barbuda)|residency]] of the [[List of Governors of the Leeward Islands|Governor]], [[Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley|the 2nd Earl Baldwin]].

His portrait by John Newman Holroyd is exposed at the [[Museum of the Order of St John]] in London.

==Bibliography==
* Vivian Gabriel. ''The troubles of the Holy Land'', London, 1922

==References==
* C. Hayavadana Rao. ''The Indian Biographical Dictionary''. Pillar & Co., Madras, 1915
* The London Gazette, 1 January 1929
* John Debrett. ''Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage''. Dean & Son, London, 1931
* Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 May 1937
* The Guardian. ''The Mandate years: colonialism and the creation of Israel''. theguardian.com, 31 May 2001
* Paul John Rich. ''Creating the Arabian Gulf. The British Raj and the Invasion of the Gulf''. Lexington Books, 2009

==External links==
* [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/colonel-edmund-vivian-gabriel-18751950-135496 Portrait by John Newman Holroyd]

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