Percy E F W Smythe Strangford

Percy E F W Smythe Strangford (1825-1869), also the 8th Viscount Strangford, born Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe, was a British diplomatist and noted philologist, son of Percy C S Smythe Strangford, Viscount (1780-1855), born at St. Petersburg. He passed through Harrow and Oxford. He entered the diplomatic service, became attaché at Constantinople, and during the Crimean War served as Oriental Secretary, acquiring the while a profound grip of the Eastern Question, and an unrivalled knowledge of European and Asiatic languages - Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Slavonic, Afghan, Basque, &c. He succeeded to the title in 1855, and henceforth resided chiefly in London. He was President of the Asiatic Society, and was considered by Freeman "our greatest English philologist". He was author of various articles on political, geographical, and philological subjects.

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