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Explore the Gertrude Bell archive through a selection of key figures from the period. For a more comprehensive list of named individuals, please see below.

Gertrude Bell with Winston Churchill in front of a pyramid

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)

Served two terms as British Prime Minister, and was Secretary of State for Air and War and Colonial Secretary during WW1.

Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (1850-1937)

Chief political officer of the Indian Expeditionary Force during WW1 and later British High Commissioner to Iraq.

Feisal [Faisal] bin al-Hussein (1885-1933)

First King of Iraq who also participated in the 1916 Arab revolt during WW1, son of the Grand Emir of the Hejaz.

Abdulaziz ibn Saud (1876-1953)

Tribal and political leader who founded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and became it's first monarch.

Walter Andrae (1875-1956)

Archaeologist and architect who participated in Robert Koldewey's dig at Babylon, Iraq (1904-1914).

Sir Mark Sykes (1879-1919)

Traveller, politician and diplomatic advisor who co-created the Sykes-Picot agreement (1916).

Sir Arnold Talbot [A.T.] Wilson (1884-1940)

Soldier, explorer, author and politican who served as Deputy and acting Civil Commissioner in Baghdad (1915-1924).

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (1880-1960)

Archaeologist who is well known for his work at ancient sites in Syria, Iraq and Sudan.

Thomas Edward [T.E.] Lawrence (1888-1935)

Archaeologist, army officer, diplomat and writer, popularly known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'.

Full list of names

Name

Allenby, Sir Edmund Henry Hynman, 1861-1936, 1st Viscount Allenby, Field Marshal, senior British Army officer and Imperial Governor
Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett [L.S.], 1873-1955, British Conservative politician and journalist
Andrae, Walter, 1875-1956, archaeologist and architect
Askari, Ja'far Pasha al-, 1885-1936, Iraqi statesman and Prime Minister
Asquith, Herbert Henry [H.H.], 1852-1928, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Liberal politician and British Prime Minister
Balfour, Francis [Frank] Cecil Campbell, 1884-1965, British military officer and colonial administrator
Balfour, Lord Arthur James, 1848-1930, 1st Earl of Balfour, British Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary
Baring, Sir Evelyn, 1841-1917, 1st Earl of Cromer, Knight, British diplomat and colonial administrator
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian, 1868-1926, archaeologist, writer and political officer
Berchem, Edmond Maximilien Berthout van, 1863-1921, philologist, epigraphist and historian
Bourdillon, Sir Bernard Henry, 1883-1948, British colonial administrator and Governor of Uganda and Nigeria
Bowman, Humphrey Ernest, 1879-1965, British colonial administrator
Brooking, Sir Harry Triscott [H.T.], 1864-1940, Knight, Major General, British army official
Butler, Howard Crosby, 1872-1922, archaeologist
Carter, Sir Edgar Bonham-, 1870-1956, barrister and British colonial administrator
Cavendish, Victor Christian William, 1868-1938, 9th Duke of Devonshire, British peer and politician
Cecil, Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-, 1864-1958, lawyer, politician and British diplomat
Chirol, Sir Ignatius Valentine [Domnul], 1852-1929, Knight, journalist, historian and British diplomat
Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer, 1885-1977, wife of Sir Winston Churchill
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965, Knight, British Prime Minister, writer and statesman
Clayton, Sir Iltyd Nicholl, 1886-1955, British military officer and colonial administrator
Cooke, Richard Sydney [R.S.], fl 1926-1957, advisor to the Ministry of Awqaf and Honorary Director of Antiquities in Iraq
Cornwallis, Sir Kinahan [Ken], 1883-1959, British military officer and colonial administrator
Cox, Louisa Belle [née Hamilton], 1850-1937, wife of Sir Percy Zachariah Cox