Stanley Lane-Poole

Stanley Lane-Poole (1854–1931) was a British orientalist, numismatist and historian. The great-nephew of the Arabist Edward William Lane, he worked for years at the British Museum cataloguing its Oriental coins, and traveled in Egypt on archaeological work. He was later professor of Arabic at Trinity College, Dublin. His many popular histories include The Moors in Spain, The Story of the Barbary Corsairs, Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, A History of Egypt in the Middle Ages and lives of Aurangzeb and Babar. He also completed Lane's great Arabic-English Lexicon.