Ferouk Khan

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Ferouk Khan
Photo of Ferouk Khan by Nadar
Personal details
Born 1812
Kashan, Iran
Died 1871
Iran
Children Mohammad Ebrahim Ghaffari
Moawen-al-dawla
Mahdi Ghaffari
Religion Shia Islam

Farrokh Khan Amin-Doleh, Ferouk Khan, also Feruk Khan or Ferukh Khan (1812-1871),[1] was a high ranking Qajar official, and vice premier to the court of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. He was also the Persian ambassador to the emperor of France, Napoleon III, and the king queen of Great Britain, Queen Victoria. The visit followed the outbreak of the Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857) between Persia and Great Britain.

Biography

Ferouk Khan was born in 1812 to a family who belonged to the Ghaffari clan. When he was a young boy he was sent to the court of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar in Tehran.

Negotiations over the Herat crisis broke down between Ferouk Khan and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, prompting the Persian embassy to turn to France.[2]

Page of The Illustrated London News, 1857, featuring Ferouk Khan.

The embassy was composed of the ambassador himself, accompanied by a suite of more than twenty persons, including councillors, dragoman, secretaries and writers. Six horses were given in present to the French Emperor, who expressed his regret about the conflict between Persia and Great Britain.[3] Negotiations led to the March 1857 Treaty of Paris, which put an end to the Anglo-Persian War.[4]

After his embassy, Ferouk Khan returned to Persia, where he became Prime Minister.[5] Ferouk Khan died from a heart attack on 5 May, 1871, and was buried in Qom.[6]

See also

Media related to Farouk Khan at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ↑ http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/amin-al-dawla-abu-taleb-farrok-khan-gaffari-1227-88-1812-71-a-high-ranking-qajar-official
  2. ↑ Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, 22 April 1857, Page 3
  3. ↑ Allen's Indian Mail p.96
  4. ↑ Immortal Steven R. Ward, p.80
  5. ↑ The Freemason's Monthly Magazine Charles Whitlock Moore, p.112
  6. ↑ http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/amin-al-dawla-abu-taleb-farrok-khan-gaffari-1227-88-1812-71-a-high-ranking-qajar-official
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