Sources

Name: Lionel Decle
Birth Year: 1859
Death Year: 1907

Source:

Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus. An international who's who in Islamic studies from its beginnings down to the twentieth century. Three volumes. By Wolfgang Behn. Leiden, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 2004-2006. (CnBCII)

naturalisation

The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Duplicate Certificates of Naturalisation, Declarations of British Nationality, and Declarations of Alienage; Class: HO 334; Piece: 28

Name: Lionel Decle
Relationship: Self (Head)
Record Type: Certificate
Age: 39
Birth Place: Rocourt, St Quintin
Residence Year: 1898
Residence Place: London, England
Father: Charles Decle
Mother: Helene Decle

Commented as being explorer, journalist and writer; unmarried

Death

FreeBMD

Name: Lionel Decle
Registration Year: 1907, Mar. Q.
Age at Death: 47
Registration district: St Pancras
Volume: 1b
Page: 15

Workhouse

Numbers of admissions to London Workhouse, late 1890s and 1900s. Comments on admission and discharge would seem to indicate mental illness or alcoholism.

Probate

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Name: Lionel Decle
Death Date: 28 Feb 1907
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Probate Date: 5 Jun 1907
Probate Registry: London, England

Effects £5, to Helene Decle, presumably mother