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Heron-Allen was born in London, the youngest of four children of George Allen and
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Heron-Allen also wrote on archaeology, Buddhist philosophy, the cultivation, gourmet appreciation of and culture of the asparagus, as well as a number of novels and short stories of science fiction and horror written under his pseudonym of "Christopher Blayre.
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Memorabilia Encountered in the Course of a Sentimental Journey through the Correspondence of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné and her Friends. Oxford, Ye Sette of Odd Volumes,
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Bābā Ṭāhir ʿOryān, The Lament of Bābā Tāhir: Being the Rubā’iyāt of Bābā Tāhir, Hamandāni ('Uryān). Translated by Edward Heron-Allen and
Rendered into English Verse by Elizabeth Curtis Brenton, London,
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In 1885 he studied the
Turkish language with Garabet Hagopian, the Armenian envoy in London. In addition to Hagopian, Heron-Allen sought the guidance of Charles Wells, a Turkish lexicographer.
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Hodgkinson, R.L. & Whittaker, J.E. (2004). Edward Heron-Allen FRS (1861–1943): a review of his scientific career, with an annotated bibliography of his foraminiferal publications.
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he joined the family firm of Allen and Son, solicitors, in Soho, London. The practice office was located close to the violin-making district and Heron-Allen made the acquaintance of
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Persian. He made friends with
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Library at Oxford, with a
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538:"The Philosophy of žUmar Khayyám," Edward Fitzgerald, 1809–1909: Centenary Celebrations Souvenir, Ipswich, 1909, pp. 17–20.
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When Heron-Allen's father died in 1911, Heron-Allen retired from practising the law and permanently moved to
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