Robert Pashley

Robert Pashley (born September 4, 1805 in York , † May 29, 1859 in London ) was an English economist and travel writer.

biography

Robert Pashley was born on September 4, 1805 in Hull to Robert Pashley and his wife Sarah (née Fisher), allegedly into a "very old and honorable family." He studied mathematics and classical literature at Trinity College in Cambridge from 1825 . He completed his studies in 1832 with an MA.

Pashley made several trips. The longest took him to the eastern Mediterranean, namely to Greece , Crete , Albania, Asia Minor, Constantinople and Malta . He left England at the end of 1832, spent the spring and summer of 1833 in Greece and Crete, the autumn in Asia Minor and on the Bosporus, and finally in Malta from December 1833 to January 1834.

Travels in Crete , title page of the first volume (1837)

About part of his trip - his three-month stay in Crete from February 8 to early May 1834 - he wrote the two-volume travelogue Travels in Crete (1837), which is Pashley's best-known work today. He crossed the island, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire, with local guides. His report, which he wrote on the basis of a detailed travel diary, contains numerous notes about antiquities, ruins ( Knossos and others) and ancient inscriptions, but also the living conditions, customs and religious beliefs (e.g. regarding the vampire belief ) of the inhabitants of Crete its time. In the history of archeology, his name is linked to the fact that he was the first to find the correct location of Kydonia (today in the urban area of Chania ). At the same time, he recorded numerous details in places that were only explored and excavated for the first time many decades later by archaeologists, which is why his travelogue has repeatedly been used as a source for individual questions about Cretan antiquity. As soon as it was published, the value of his travel report was widely recognized. A long, 20-page review in the Annals of Geography, Ethnology and Political Science believed that it should not be cautious “with laudatory praise” and wrote: “Pashley is an author who writes as well as he is graceful; his report is extremely satisfactory ”.

After his return to England he worked as a lawyer and was admitted to one of the English bar associations ( The Inner Temple ) in November 1837 . In March 1838, he lost his library, manuscripts, and ancient collections when his office burned out in a fire in the Temple. "Even the smallest snippet of my unpublished material about Crete and Asia Minor fell victim to the flames in the Temple, " he wrote in May 1852 to a friend.

In 1851 he was appointed Crown Attorney ( KC ), the culmination of his legal career. The following year he ran for a seat in Parliament - for the city of York - but was not elected (in fact, he withdrew his candidacy before the election when it was clear he would not get the necessary votes). In the first half of the 1850s, Pashley also published two papers on economic issues.

Pashley died on May 29, 1859 in his apartment in Manchester Square, London. His grave is in Kensal Green Cemetery .

Trivia

Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington (1816–1890), the son of the well-known Admiral Thomas John Cochrane, dedicated several of his poems ("Sibylline Leaves") from the Poems collection (1838) to his friend Robert Pashley. They probably knew each other from Cambridge.

Until 1846 Robert Pashley ran a wine and liquor store in Worksop , Nottinghamshire with his brother Charles .

family

Pashley had been married to Marie, the only daughter of the Prussian Major General Adolf Lauer von Münchhofen , since 1853 . The couple is said to have had three, but according to Dudley Moore only one child - a son. The Gothaische genealogical pocket book , however, mentions a daughter of the couple named Edith Marie Emily Pashley (born on June 8, 1853) and describes her as "the eldest daughter", which indicates the existence of at least one other daughter, strictly speaking, two other daughters indicates.

Fonts

1837: Travels in Crete . 2 volumes. Cambridge: Pitt Press / London: John Murray. (Heidelberg University Library digital: Volume I - Volume II ) (Google: Volume I - Volume II )
1852: On Pauperism and Poor Laws . London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans ( Google )
1854: Observations on the Government Bill for Abolishing the Removal of the Poor and Re-distributing the Burden of Poor-rate with a Proposal for More Equitably Re-distributing that Burden . London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans

literature

Dudley Moore: Dawn of Discovery: the Early British Travelers to Crete. Richard Pocoke, Robert Pashley and Thomas Spratt, and Their Contributions to the Island's Bronze Age Archaeological Heritage . Archaeopress, Oxford 2010 (= British Archaeological Reports International Series 2053 ), p. 23 ff .; Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2013, pp. 55 ff.
"Obituary: Robert Pashley". In: The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review , Volume VII New Series (1859), pp. 191-193.

Web links

Literature by and about Robert Pashley in the catalog of the German National Library .
" Pashley, Robert ". ACAD A Cambridge Alumni Database (University of Cambridge).
Pashley, Robert . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 5 : Pace – Spyers . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1953, pp. 41 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
" Robert Pashley (1805-1859) " . Short bio on the website of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Retrieved November 21, 2019.

Individual evidence

↑ Various sources give the city of Hull as the place of birth. The accuracy of one or the other information cannot be clarified until further notice. Robert's father was from Hull, but that doesn't mean anything. Robert himself later ran for a seat in Parliament for the city of York, which may indicate that he was born there too.
↑ According to other information ( ACAD, Cambridge Alumni Database ) already on May 1st.
^ "Obituary: Robert Pashley" (1859), p. 191.
↑ Art. III. Travels in Crete. By Robert Pashley. In: Heinrich Berghaus (Ed.): Annals of geography, ethnology and national studies . IV of the 3rd row: April – September 1837. G. Reimer, Berlin 1837, p. 132–152, here p. 152 .
↑ ^a ^b Obituary . In: The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review . VII New series: July to December 1859. London 1859, p. 91 .
↑ Quoted in Moore 2013, p. 56.
↑ Kensal Green notables list of those buried in the Kensal Green cemetery. Retrieved June 11, 2018. (English)
↑ Notice . In: The London Gazette . No. 20652 . London October 23, 1846, p. 3749 .
^ "Obituary: Robert Pashley" (1859), p. 192.
↑ Moore 2013, p. 56.
^ In the name of Robert Edmund Pashley (died August 1878 at the age of only 21).
↑ Volume 37 (1887), p. 535.

personal data
SURNAME	Pashley, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English economist and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	York
DATE OF DEATH	May 29, 1859
Place of death	London

[1] Various sources give the city of Hull as the place of birth. The accuracy of one or the other information cannot be clarified until further notice. Robert's father was from Hull, but that doesn't mean anything. Robert himself later ran for a seat in Parliament for the city of York, which may indicate that he was born there too.

[2] According to other information ( ACAD, Cambridge Alumni Database ) already on May 1st.

[3] "Obituary: Robert Pashley" (1859), p. 191.

[4] Art. III. Travels in Crete. By Robert Pashley. In: Heinrich Berghaus (Ed.): Annals of geography, ethnology and national studies . IV of the 3rd row: April – September 1837. G. Reimer, Berlin 1837, p. 132–152, here p. 152 .

[:0-5] Obituary . In: The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review . VII New series: July to December 1859. London 1859, p. 91 .

[6] Quoted in Moore 2013, p. 56.

[7] Kensal Green notables list of those buried in the Kensal Green cemetery. Retrieved June 11, 2018. (English)

[8] Notice . In: The London Gazette . No. 20652 . London October 23, 1846, p. 3749 .

[9] "Obituary: Robert Pashley" (1859), p. 192.

[10] Moore 2013, p. 56.

[11] In the name of Robert Edmund Pashley (died August 1878 at the age of only 21).

[12] Volume 37 (1887), p. 535.