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background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div style="display:inline-block" class="fn">Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;; line-height: 1.5em"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Percy_Sykes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Sir_Percy_Sykes.jpg/220px-Sir_Percy_Sykes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Sir_Percy_Sykes.jpg/330px-Sir_Percy_Sykes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Sir_Percy_Sykes.jpg/440px-Sir_Percy_Sykes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1633" data-file-height="2048" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Birth name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Percy Molesworth Sykes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">28 February 1867</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">11 June 1945<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend dday deathdate">1945-06-12</span>)</span> (aged 78)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom"><img alt="United Kingdom" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, 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scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Commands</th><td class="infobox-data">Consul-General Khuzestan,</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Indian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire">Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Bath">Companion of the Order of the Bath</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George">Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Brigadier-General" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadier-General">Brigadier-General</a> <b>Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Indian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire">KCIE</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Bath">CB</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George">CMG</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society">FRGS</a></span></span> (28 February 1867 – 11 June 1945) was a British soldier, diplomat, and scholar with a considerable literary output. He wrote historical, geographical, and biographical works, as well as describing his travels in <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Persia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Percy_Sykes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Percy Sykes was born in <a href="/wiki/Brompton,_Kent" title="Brompton, Kent">Brompton, Kent</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> the only son of Army chaplain Rev. William Sykes (b. 1829)<sup id="cite_ref-Foreign_Parts_1900,_p._929_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foreign_Parts_1900,_p._929-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his wife Mary, daughter of Captain Anthony Oliver Molesworth, of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery" title="Royal Artillery">Royal Artillery</a>, descended from <a href="/wiki/Robert_Molesworth,_1st_Viscount_Molesworth" title="Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth">Robert Molesworth</a>, 1st <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Molesworth" title="Viscount Molesworth">Viscount Molesworth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His sisters <a href="/wiki/Ella_Sykes" title="Ella Sykes">Ella Sykes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ethel_Sykes" title="Ethel Sykes">Ethel Sykes</a> were both writers.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father, William was the second son of Richard Sykes, of Edgeley House, <a href="/wiki/Stockport" title="Stockport">Stockport</a>, owner of the <a href="/wiki/Sykes_Bleaching_Company" title="Sykes Bleaching Company">Sykes Bleaching Company</a>; Percy Sykes was thus the nephew of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Sykes_(rugby_union)" title="Richard Sykes (rugby union)">Richard Sykes</a> the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">rugby</a> player who founded towns in America, and cousin of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Alan_Sykes,_1st_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Alan Sykes, 1st Baronet">Sir Alan Sykes, 1st Baronet</a> who was MP for <a href="/wiki/Knutsford" title="Knutsford">Knutsford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Foreign_Parts_1900,_p._929_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foreign_Parts_1900,_p._929-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Rugby_School" title="Rugby School">Rugby School</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst" title="Royal Military College, Sandhurst">Royal Military College, Sandhurst</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WDL_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_career">Military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Percy_Sykes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Percy_Sykes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Percy_Sykes.jpg/220px-Percy_Sykes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Percy_Sykes.jpg/330px-Percy_Sykes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Percy_Sykes.jpg/440px-Percy_Sykes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="627" /></a><figcaption>Brigadier General Sir Percy Sykes with officers of the original <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_Bandar_Abbas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mission Bandar Abbas (page does not exist)">Mission Bandar Abbas</a>, April 1916. (standing) Major E Howell, Captain Durham, (seated) Major G. Blair (Staff Officer) Brig General Sir Percy Sykes, Captain R.C. Ruck.</figcaption></figure> <p>Sykes was commissioned into the <a href="/wiki/16th_Lancers" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Lancers">16th Lancers</a>, but transferred to the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Dragoon_Guards_(Queen%27s_Bays)" title="2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)">2nd Dragoon Guards</a> in 1888.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was posted to <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">India</a> and made several journeys through Persia and <a href="/wiki/Balochistan_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Balochistan (region)">Baluchistan</a>. When he was a second lieutenant, he was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society" title="Royal Geographical Society">Royal Geographical Society</a> in November 1891.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was sent on a secret mission in November 1892 when he went to <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Trans-Caspian_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Trans-Caspian Railway">Trans-Caspian Railway</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WDL_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Promotion to <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)">lieutenant</a> followed on 26 April 1895, and to <a href="/wiki/Captain_(BARM)" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain (BARM)">captain</a> on 8 December 1897. He was Consul at <a href="/wiki/Kerman" title="Kerman">Kerman</a> in Persia for several years in the 1890s. During the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a> in South Africa he served as second in command of the 9th Battalion, <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Yeomanry" title="Imperial Yeomanry">Imperial Yeomanry</a> until September 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later served with the Intelligence Department<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was wounded in the leg.<sup id="cite_ref-Leach_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leach-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed a Companion of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" title="Order of St Michael and St George">Order of St Michael and St George</a> (CMG) in the <a href="/wiki/1902_Coronation_Honours" title="1902 Coronation Honours">1902 Coronation Honours</a> list on 26 June 1902<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In late 1902 he joined the Indian Political Department, and transferred to the <a href="/wiki/British_Indian_Army" title="British Indian Army">Indian Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the next few years he made extensive journeys in the Middle East and was appointed consul-general for <a href="/wiki/Kh%C5%ABzest%C4%81n_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Khūzestān Province">Khūzestān</a> in 1906. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_George_Macartney_%26_Chinese_Officials,_Kashgar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Sir_George_Macartney_%26_Chinese_Officials%2C_Kashgar.jpg/220px-Sir_George_Macartney_%26_Chinese_Officials%2C_Kashgar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Sir_George_Macartney_%26_Chinese_Officials%2C_Kashgar.jpg/330px-Sir_George_Macartney_%26_Chinese_Officials%2C_Kashgar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Sir_George_Macartney_%26_Chinese_Officials%2C_Kashgar.jpg/440px-Sir_George_Macartney_%26_Chinese_Officials%2C_Kashgar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4223" data-file-height="2800" /></a><figcaption>Sykes' 1915 photograph of Chinese officials and <a href="/wiki/George_Macartney_(British_consul)" title="George Macartney (British consul)">Sir George Macartney</a> who served as Britain's Consul in Kashgar from 1890 until 1918</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1915 Sykes was knighted.<sup id="cite_ref-Leach_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leach-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 1915 he was charged as acting Consul-General in Chinese Turkestan, now <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Uyghurs" title="Uyghurs">Uyghur</a> Autonomous Region of China. Sykes traveled overland from England via Norway to the capital city of <a href="/wiki/Kashgar" title="Kashgar">Kashgar</a> accompanied by his sister, <a href="/wiki/Ella_Constance_Sykes" class="mw-redirect" title="Ella Constance Sykes">Ella Constance Sykes</a>, herself a Fellow of the Geographical Society and a well-regarded expert on Persia. The two recorded their journey in series of photographs <a class="external autonumber" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_taken_by_Lt._Col._Sir_Percy_Sykes_to_illustrate_Chinese_Turkestan,_the_Russian_Pamirs_and_Osh_April-November,_1915">[1]</a> and later published <i>Through deserts and oases of Central Asia</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a book which documents their nine-month journey. </p><p>While stationed in Persia he was given the temporary rank of <a href="/wiki/Brigadier-General" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadier-General">Brigadier-General</a>, he was placed in command of the <a href="/wiki/South_Persia_Rifles" title="South Persia Rifles">South Persia Rifles</a> that he raised himself.<sup id="cite_ref-Galbraith_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Galbraith-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His forces, consisting of some 7,000 men, supported the Russians at <a href="/wiki/Isfahan" title="Isfahan">Isfahan</a> against Bakhtiaras and restored some order to the country. Once stationed at Isfahan, Sykes used numerous excuses to remain, including a supposed Russian request that the South Persia rifles be used as a garrison for Isfahan.<sup id="cite_ref-Galbraith_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Galbraith-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1917 numerous British authorities, save Lord Curzon, were calling for his removal. Despite this, Sykes was finally recalled in 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-Galbraith_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Galbraith-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Percy_Sykes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sykes retired from the army in 1924, retaining the honorary rank of Brigadier-General. From 1932 until his death he was honorary secretary of the Royal Central Asian Society, now known as the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_for_Asian_Affairs" title="Royal Society for Asian Affairs">Royal Society for Asian Affairs</a>. The society has in its gift an award called The Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal.<sup id="cite_ref-Award_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Award-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society" title="Royal Geographical Society">Royal Geographical Society</a> awarded him the <a href="/wiki/Back_Award" title="Back Award">Back grant</a> in 1899 and the <a href="/wiki/Patron%27s_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Patron's Medal">Patron's Medal</a> in 1902.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_legacy">Family and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Percy_Sykes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Family and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1902 he married Evelyn Seton, eldest daughter of <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Gordon_Seton" title="Bruce Gordon Seton">Colonel Bruce Seton</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Engineers" title="Royal Engineers">Royal Engineers</a> and they had six children. His daughter Rachel married <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Reilly" title="Patrick Reilly">Sir Patrick Reilly</a> the diplomat. </p><p>Percy's family later introduced the "<a href="/wiki/Percy_Sykes_Memorial_Medal" title="Percy Sykes Memorial Medal">Sykes medal</a>", awarded to those who contributed to the understanding of <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Percy_Sykes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style 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no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSykes1902" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1902). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173893"><i>Ten Thousand Miles in Persia</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/John_Murray_(publishing_house)" title="John Murray (publishing house)">John Murray</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ten+Thousand+Miles+in+Persia&rft.pub=John+Murray&rft.date=1902&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.173893&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span> <sup id="cite_ref-WDL_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1910" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1910). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gloryofshiaworld00sykeuoft"><i>The Glory of the Shia World</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers" title="Macmillan Publishers">Macmillan Publishers</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Glory+of+the+Shia+World&rft.pub=Macmillan+Publishers&rft.date=1910&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgloryofshiaworld00sykeuoft&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-WDL_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1914" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1914). <i>Lectures delivered to the Persia Society, 1913–1914</i>. Morrison & Gibb.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lectures+delivered+to+the+Persia+Society%2C+1913%E2%80%931914&rft.pub=Morrison+%26+Gibb&rft.date=1914&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1915" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1915). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924088418466"><i>A History of Persia</i></a>. MacMillan.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Persia&rft.pub=MacMillan&rft.date=1915&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcu31924088418466&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-WDL_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924023243391">"Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia"</a>. MacMillan. 1920.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Through+Deserts+and+Oases+of+Central+Asia&rft.pub=MacMillan&rft.date=1920&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcu31924023243391&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1921" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1921). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279382"><i>A History of Persia</i></a> (2nd ed.). MacMillan.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Persia&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=MacMillan&rft.date=1921&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.279382&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1922" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1922). <i>Persia</i>. Oxford University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Persia&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1922&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1926" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1926). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283682"><i>The Right Honourable Sir Mortimer Durand</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Cassell_%26_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="Cassell & Co.">Cassell & Co.</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Right+Honourable+Sir+Mortimer+Durand&rft.pub=Cassell+%26+Co.&rft.date=1926&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.283682&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1930" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1930). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.544109"><i>A History of Persia</i></a> (3rd ed.). MacMillan.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Persia&rft.edition=3rd&rft.pub=MacMillan&rft.date=1930&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.544109&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1934" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1934). <i>A History of Exploration</i>. George Routledge & Sons.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Exploration&rft.pub=George+Routledge+%26+Sons&rft.date=1934&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1936" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1936). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59288"><i>The Quest for Cathay</i></a>. A. & C. Black.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Quest+for+Cathay&rft.pub=A.+%26+C.+Black&rft.date=1936&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.59288&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1938" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1938). <i>À La Recherche du Cathay</i>. Payot, Paris.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%C3%80+La+Recherche+du+Cathay&rft.place=Payot%2C+Paris&rft.date=1938&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1939" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1939). <i>Explorers All, Famous Journeys in Asia</i>. George Newnes.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Explorers+All%2C+Famous+Journeys+in+Asia&rft.pub=George+Newnes&rft.date=1939&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1939" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1939). Sir Percy Sykes (ed.). <i>The Story of Exploration and Adventure</i>. George Newnes.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Story+of+Exploration+and+Adventure&rft.pub=George+Newnes&rft.date=1939&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1940" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1940). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.78529"><i>A History of Afghanistan</i></a>. MacMillan.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Afghanistan&rft.pub=MacMillan&rft.date=1940&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.78529&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1949" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1949). <i>A History of Exploration</i>. <a href="/wiki/Routledge_%26_Kegan_Paul" class="mw-redirect" title="Routledge & Kegan Paul">Routledge & Kegan Paul</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Exploration&rft.pub=Routledge+%26+Kegan+Paul&rft.date=1949&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSykes1958" class="citation book cs1">Sykes, Sir Percy (1958). <i>A History of Persia</i> (3rd edition, with supplementary essays ed.). MacMillan.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Persia&rft.edition=3rd+edition%2C+with+supplementary+essays&rft.pub=MacMillan&rft.date=1958&rft.aulast=Sykes&rft.aufirst=Sir+Percy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Percy_Sykes&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Foreign_Parts_1900,_p._929-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Foreign_Parts_1900,_p._929_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Foreign_Parts_1900,_p._929_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Two Hundred Years of the S.P.G.: An Historical Account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1900, Based on a Digest of the Society's Records, vol. I, Charles Frederick Pascoe, 1901, p. 929</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2720</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, fortieth edition, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison, Pall Mall, 1878, p. 835</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-73441">"Sykes, Ella Constance (1863–1939), traveller and writer"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F73441">10.1093/ref:odnb/73441</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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No. 36972. London. 8 January 1903. p. 8.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Times&rft.atitle=Naval+%26+Military+intelligence&rft.issue=36972&rft.pages=p.-8&rft.date=1903-01-08&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Through deserts and oases of central Asia</i>, by Sykes, Ella Constance, d. 1939; Sykes, Percy Molesworth, Sir, 1867-1945 , <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924023243391">https://archive.org/details/cu31924023243391</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Galbraith-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Galbraith_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Galbraith_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Galbraith_16-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Bureaucracies at War:The British in the Middle East in the First World War</i>, <a href="/wiki/John_S._Galbraith" class="mw-redirect" title="John S. Galbraith">John S. Galbraith</a> and Robert A. Huttenback, <b>National and International Politics in the Middle East: Essays in Honour of Elie Kedourie</b>, ed. Edward Ingram, (Routledge, 2013), 117-119.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Award-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Award_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rsaa.org.uk/page/awards">"RSAA Awards"</a>. RSAA<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Meyer">Meyer, Karl E.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shareen_Blair_Brysac" title="Shareen Blair Brysac">Shareen Blair Brysac</a> (2008). <i>Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East</i>. W.W. Norton.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Kingmakers%3A+the+Invention+of+the+Modern+Middle+East&rft.pub=W.W.+Norton&rft.date=2008&rft.au=Meyer%2C+Karl+E.+and+Shareen+Blair+Brysac&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APercy+Sykes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnthony2003" class="citation book cs1">Anthony, Wynn (2003). <i>Persia in the Great Game – Sir Percy Sykes: Explorer, Consul, Soldier</i>. <a href="/wiki/John_Murray_(publishing_house)" title="John Murray (publishing house)">John Murray</a>.</cite><span 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