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Consul / diplomat · Collector

Michael de Vezin

1741–1792 · United Kingdom

British diplomat and collector. Consul at Larnaca. Acted for Robert Ainslie.

Life and work

  1. 1782
    As British consul showed Domenico Sestini the ruins of Kition 'between Larnaca and the Borgo delle Saline' and made known to him the inscriptions Sestini first published.

    KitionMasson 1986

  2. 1782
    Acquired two or three of the Kition inscribed stones for his then protector Robert Ainslie, British ambassador at Constantinople 1776-1792.

    KitionMasson 1986

  3. 1792
    Died at Larnaca aged 51; buried in the little graveyard next to St Lazarus' church.

    LarnacaCobham 1908, p. 368

  4. 1804
    His notes on Aleppo and Cyprus, translated into German by his widow's second husband D. Gottlieb Harles, were published in Sprengel's Reisebeschreibungen, vol. 12, pp. 63-86; Cobham restored them to English.

    Cobham 1908, p. 368

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Fieldwork & employment

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  2. 2.Olivier Masson (1986). “Domenico Sestini à Larnaca en 1782 et quatre inscriptions de Chypre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 6. Online