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on 20 September 1775: "The king has been pleased to appoint Robert Ainslie, Esq., to be his majesty's ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, in the room of John Murray, Esq., deceased; and his majesty was pleased this day to confer upon him the honour of knighthood, upon which occasion he had the honour to
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Views in Egypt, from the original drawings in possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his Embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer; engraved by and under the direction of Thomas Milton; with historical Observations and incidental Illustrations of the Manners and Customs of the Natives of that
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family, who married Jane, daughter of Sir Philip Anstruther of Anstrutherfield, and died in 1773. The issue of the marriage of George Ainslie was a family of eight children and included five daughters, four of whom were married and established in
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On 8 September 1796, Ainslie received a grant of a pension of £1,000 on the civil list to be held "during the joint lives of his majesty and himself" and was elected a Member of Parliament. It met on the 27th of the same month, with
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Ainslie's researches embraced antiquities of various kinds, objects of natural history, and illustrations of the East and its current life. Ainslie was a friend of important German orientalist artist
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and before departing Turkey travelled with him along the coast. He commissioned Mayer to produce drawings of many landmarks en route include the former settlements of ancient
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Paintings of present day Kaleköy (ancient Simena) at Kekova (Cacamo) by Luigi Mayer, commissioned by Ainslie during their excursion along the Turkish coast:
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which, according to an inscription, probably autographic, on the fly-leaf, was "presented from Sr Robt Ainslie, 5 June 1795", to the
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Sestini continued his exposition of the Ainslie collection in a smaller work, and more special in its scope, entitled
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for December 1796 recorded the death of his son on 20 December 1796 from a violent fever. His great-nephew was
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The decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: from Jihad to Dhimmitude : seventh-twentieth century
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Ainslie took advantage of his position at Constantinople to amass a collection of ancient coins from
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Domenico Sestini, who dedicated to Ainslie a work which has gone through several editions, entitled
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Ainslie, who was born about 1730, is described as having resided in the earlier part of his life at
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eleph. fol. London, 1801. This was followed by two bilingual volumes, English and French, entitled
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The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 1-2
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Dissertazione sopra alcune Monete Armene del Principi Rupinensi della Collezione Ainslieana
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Lettere e Dissertazioni Numismatiche sopra alcune Medaglie rare della Collezione Ainslieana
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)
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in 1794, and four others, referring to particular collections, were published at
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Leipzig, 1796. Ainslie had been the 'Mæcenas' of Sestini's dedication of the
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
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Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, Volume 1
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Descriptio Numorum Veterum ex Museis Ainslie, Bellini, Bondacca, Borgia,
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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He was the third and youngest son of George Ainslie, Esq., from a
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A Series of Twenty-four Views illustrative of the Holy Scriptures
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he was a malignant speculator and trader in antiquities.
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of being a great favourite and boon companion of Sultan
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Sir Robert Ainslie
British ambassador
Ottoman Empire
numismatist
Member of Parliament
rotten borough
Milborne Port
Somerset
Lasswade
France
Philip Ainslie
George Ainslie
Scilly Islands
Bordeaux
Pilton
Midlothian
London Gazette
Constantinople
Turkey
Abdul Hamid I
Lord Paget
Milborne Port
Somerset
baronet
Great Torrington
County of Lincoln
Gentleman's Magazine
Thomas Corbett
Bath, England

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