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Consul-General Hanmer Warrington and the Old Protestant Cemetery in Tripoli, Libya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

Dorothy Thorn
Dorothy Thorn*
Affiliation:
West Wickham, Kent, UK
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Abstract

The charismatic Consul-General Hanmer Warrington held his post in Tripoli for thirty-two years, during which time he cultivated a good, if tempestuous, working relationship with the Bashaw and the other foreign consuls. The large Warrington family was raised there. When they outgrew the Consulate building, which dated from 1774, the Consul designed a country house, and had it built two miles outside the town. It was near this house, and by the sea, that in 1830 he and the other consuls founded a walled Protestant Cemetery for the burial mainly of Europeans. This cemetery was rediscovered and studied by Abdulhakeem Amer Tweel of Tripoli, who is in the process of publishing a book on the subject.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 37 , 2006 , pp. 85 - 88
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 2006

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