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Robert Pashley (4 September 1805 — 29 May 1859) was a 19th century English traveller and economist.

Pashley was born in York and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. Distinguished in mathematics and Classics, in 1830 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity at his first sitting. In 1832 he took his MA degree, and as a travelling Fellow undertook a journey in Italy Greece, Asia Minor and Crete, of which he published his two-volume Travels in Crete. His work is considered a classic of writing on the Ottoman Empire, with his detailed observations on local geography, customs and social issues.

• 1837: Called to the Bar by Society of Inner Temple
• 1838: Lost his valuable library and antiquities in fire at Temple
• 1851: Appointed one of Her Majesty's Counsel
• 1852: Stood for Parliament (not elected)
• 1853: Married to a Prussian Lady, Marie, only daughter of Baron Von Lauer of Berlin. Had three children.
• He went on to publish two works on economics: On Pauperism (1854), and Observations on the government bill for abolishing the Removal of the Poor (1854).

His remains are buried at Kensal Green cemetery.

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