Monument to John Oliver Wardrop. Sir John Oliver Wardrop (October 10, 1864 – October 19, 1948) was a distinguished British diplomat, traveler, and translator. He became known as the first High Commissioner of the United Kingdom for Transcaucasia in Georgia in 1919-20. Wardrop was also the founder and patron of Caucasian studies at Oxford University. Following his first visit to Georgia in 1887, when it was part of the Russian Empire, Wardrop wrote his study "The Kingdom of Georgia," which was published in 1888. During his...

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Monument to John Oliver Wardrop. Sir John Oliver Wardrop (October 10, 1864 – October 19, 1948) was a distinguished British diplomat, traveler, and translator. He became known as the first High Commissioner of the United Kingdom for Transcaucasia in Georgia in 1919-20....

Monument to John Oliver Wardrop

GeorgiaGeorgia, Tbilisi

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Sir John Oliver Wardrop (October 10, 1864 – October 19, 1948) was a distinguished British diplomat, traveler, and translator. He became known as the first High Commissioner of the United Kingdom for Transcaucasia in Georgia in 1919-20. Wardrop was also the founder and patron of Caucasian studies at Oxford University.

Following his first visit to Georgia in 1887, when it was part of the Russian Empire, Wardrop wrote his study "The Kingdom of Georgia," which was published in 1888. During his second journey to Georgia in 1894, he mastered the Georgian language and authored several books on Georgia, including his translation of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani's "Book of Wisdom and Lies."

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