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Traveller / antiquarian

John Macdonald Kinneir

fl. 1814–1818

Traveller, active 1814–1818.

Life and work

  1. 2 January 1814 – 24 January 1814
    Visited Cyprus between 2 and 24 January 1814 on his journey through Asia Minor; saw the ruins of Salamis or rather Constantia near Famagusta (walls, cisterns, broken columns).

    CyprusCobham 1908

  2. 1818
    Published Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia and Koordistan (London), the Cyprus account on pp. 176-196.

    LondonCobham 1908

Sources

  1. 1.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  2. 2.J. Macdonald Kinneir (1818). Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia and Koordistan. London.
  3. 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.