Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Traveller / antiquarian

Rooke

d. 1814 · United Kingdom

British traveller.

Life and work

  1. 1806
    An English traveller, Mr. Rooke, who had visited 'Cythera' and other antiquities, met Ali Bey at Limassol. Ali Bey records that Rooke could give him no account of a hilltop building overlooking Cytherea and Idalia.

    LimassolAbbassi 1816Cobham 1908, p. 398

  2. 1814
    Lieutenant Colonel Rooke, said by Capt. Henry Light to have died at Baffa a few days before Light reached Larnaca; Light was lodged in his former apartments. Light calls him a man respected in Cyprus whose taste for travel kept him long in the East, where he spent large sums on 'objects of research' and on generosity to the natives.

    LarnacaCobham 1908, p. 420

  3. 7 July 1814
    Died in a convent in Cyprus and was buried by the monks with the consent of the Greek bishop; his brother W. Rooke had a memorial slab placed over the grave. It names him Henry Rooke Esq., formerly Major in the 100th Regiment of Foot with brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel, who after leaving the army travelled in Europe and in 1799 served as a volunteer with the Russian army at the siege of Ancona.

    CyprusCobham 1908, p. 476

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Sources

  1. 1.Ali Bey el Abbassi (1816). Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, between the years 1803 and 1807. London, Longman.
  2. 2.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online