Percy Cox
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Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, was a British Indian Army officer and Colonial Office administrator in the Middle East. He is considered one of the main architects behind the current Middle Eas
Cox in 1916
Cox and Gertrude Bell with Abdul Aziz Ibn Sa'ud, during the Arab Revolt, Basrah, 1916
Coronation of Faisal as King of Iraq. Faisal seated, to his right are British High commissioner Percy Cox and Lieutenant Kinahan Cornwallis, to his left commander-in-chief of all British troops in the Mesopotamia Commander General Aylmer Haldane.
Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell
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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became infl
Percy Cox
…Gertrude Bell he became an indispensable and close friend; whom she fondly admired. By 1914, Cox was a champion of Arab nationalism, working closely with Gertrude Bell, and T. E. Lawrence to that end. During April 1916, Kitchener offered a series of blatant bribes up to £2 million via General Halil "to the people of…
1876 portrait of Sir Hugh Bell and his 8-year-old daughter Gertrude. Portrait by Edward Poynter.
1907 photograph of Bell and Fattuh, an Arab guide who accompanied her on many of her trips
Bell's workers at the Binbirkilise excavations in 1907