Charles Sebright

Sir Charles Sebright, Baron d'Everton KCMG (1807 - 9 ga Oktoba 1884) ya kasance jami'in diflomasiyyar Scotland na ƙarni na 19 wanda ya yi aiki a Tsibirin Ionian kuma Mai son littattafai.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haifi Sebright a Everton kusa da Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, ga dangin asalin Ingilishi waɗanda suka rubuta sunan Sevright.

Sebright ya yi doki a matsayin ma'aikaci da sakatare ga Charles II, Duke na Parma . Bayan tafiyarsa a 1842, Duke ya kirkiro shi Il Barone d'Everton a cikin Duchy na Lucca . 

 Ayyukan diflomasiyya 
Sebright daga baya ya shiga aikin diflomasiyyar Burtaniya a Amurka ta Tsibirin Ionian, wanda ya kasance mai kare Burtaniya tun lokacin Yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon. Ya kasance mazaunin Cephalonia da Santa Maura . An yaba wa Sebright saboda samar da jagoranci mai kyau lokacin da bayan tawaye da mazaunan tsibirin suka kawo karshen mulkin Burtaniya a 1864. Ferdinand Whittingham, a cikin littafinsa na 1864 Four Years in the Ionian Islands, ya ce game da Scotsman: "Shi kaɗai, watakila, na dukan Mazauna, shi ne ainihin mutumin da ya dace a wuri mai kyau; a cikin jama'a da kuma masu zaman kansu ya ci gaba da kasancewa mai girma".

Don ayyukansa a Tsibirin Ionian, an nada Sebright a matsayin Kwamandan Knight na Order of St Michael da St George a 1864. 

Daga 1864 zuwa 1870, Sebright ya kasance wakilin Burtaniya a Cephalonia,  inda ya kasance shugaban kungiyar Agrarian Society.  An nada shi mukaddashin Consul-General a Corfu a 1865 da kuma Consul-Janar na Tsibirin Ionian a 1870. 

 Tarin littattafai 
H.Sebright mai yiwuwa ya fara tattara littattafai yayin da yake aiki da Duke na Parma, sanannen masanin littattafai wanda ya tattara littattafan zamani da Renaissance-lokaci da rubuce-rubuce. Tarin Sebright na kusan littattafai 400 ɗan'uwansa ne ya ba da gudummawa ga Kwalejin Presbyterian ta Montreal a 1886. Yawancin littattafan an buga su tsakanin ƙarni na 15 da 18, kuma sun haɗa da tarihin Italiyanci da adabi, incunabula, da kuma hotuna. Har ila yau, tarin Sebright ya ƙunshi littattafai game da tauhidin - gami da kwafin Complutensian Polyglot Bible - wallafe-wallafen, ilimin kimiyyar tarihi, kayan tarihi, da numismatics.[1]

Jami'ar McGill ta Montreal ce ta samo tarin sa a cikin 1987 da 2014. An tattara tarin har abada a McGills's Rare Books and Special Collections. A cikin 2015-16, jami'ar ta nuna littattafan a cikin baje kolin Sir Charles Sebright: The Book-Collecting Baron . 

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
Sebright ta fara auren Marie Foster, amma an bar ta gwauruwa. A ranar 24 ga Nuwamba 1871, ya yi aure a karo na biyu a Ofishin Jakadancin Burtaniya a Naples ga marubucin Scotland Georgina Muir Mackenzie . Georgina 'yar Sir John Muir Mackenzie ce, Baronet na 2 kuma 'yar'uwar Baron Muir Mackenzie, kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin Kiristoci a Daular Ottoman. Ya sadu da ita a Santa Maura yayin da take yawon shakatawa a Balkans.

Sir Charles ya sake zama gwauruwa lokacin da Lady Sebright ta mutu a 1874 a Corfu, tana da shekaru 39. Ya mutu a can bayan shekaru goma, yana da shekaru 77.

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