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David Urquhart (1805–77) was a British author and diplomat who served under Foreign Secretary Viscount Palmerston. The leading Turcophile writer of his generation, Urquhart was closely associated with championing the Turkish cause in British politics, often at the expense of Russia, a position that eventually brought him in direct conflict with Palmerston and ended his diplomatic career. Beginning in 1827, Urquhart spent about a decade in Greece and the Balkans. He first took part in the Greek War of Independence. He later traveled in the region and served as ...