Richard Pococke (19 November 1704 – 25 September 1765) was an English-born churchman, inveterate traveller and travel writer. He was the Bishop of Ossory...
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Highclere Castle (section Milles and Pococke families)
of Milles the younger, married Reverend Richard Pococke LL.B. (1660–1710) and had the Rt. Rev. Richard Pococke (1704–1765), who, having been educated by...
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Pococke is a surname, and may refer to Edward Pococke (1604–1691), an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. Richard Pococke (1704–1765), an English...
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Lead mining in Scotland (section Richard Pococke)
Tours in Scotland by Richard Pococke (Edinburgh: SHS, 1887), p. 42 Daniel William Kemp, Tours in Scotland by Richard Pococke (Edinburgh: SHS, 1887)...
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The temple resurfaces in the records of the modern era in 1737 with Richard Pococke, a British traveller, who visited the site. Several visitations followed...
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Edward Pococke (baptised 8 November 1604 – 10 September 1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. The son of Edward Pococke (died 1636),...
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Marsyas river (named after Marsyas). The same tributary was drawn by Richard Pococke to the east of the Orontes in the al-Ghab plain near Apamea. "Asi-Orontes...
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more on Libanus". Jean de la Roque in 1722 found 20 trees. In 1738 Richard Pococke provided a detailed description. "They form a grove about a mile in...
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volumes ed.), Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage, p. 2971 Pococke, Richard (2010) [1752], Pococke's Tour in Ireland in 1752 (Stoke's 1891 ed.), Cork: Corpus...
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(1718 and 1720–21), Granger (1731), Frederick Louis Norden (1737–38), Richard Pococke (1738), James Bruce (1769), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt...
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