Dictionary of Indian Biography/Badger, Rev. George Percy
BADGER, REV. GEORGE PERCY (1815–1888)
Born in April, 1815: spent his youth at Malta, and 1835–36 at Bairut to learn Arabic: ordained in 1841: for his knowledge of the East and of Arabic was sent as a delegate to the Eastern Churches, including the Nestorians, in Kurdistan, 1842–5 and 1850: appointed a Chaplain under the Bombay Government, 1845: his knowledge of Arabic was utilised at Aden and under Outram in the Persian expedition of 1856–7: in 1860 he helped to settle the troubles in Oman: was Secretary to Sir Bartle Frere's mission to Zanzibar, 1872: D.C.L. in 1873: died Feb. 21, 1888: wrote The Nestorians and their Rituals, A History of the Imaums and Sayyids of Oman, 1871: on Muhammad and Muhammadanism: and an English-Arabic Lexicon, besides other works: F.Z.S.: F.S.A.