Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Baronet GCH, PC (24 June 1770 – 18 November 1844), was a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat.

He allegedly bribed Persian clerics and politicians to persuade them to secure British interests in Persia.

His most important undertaking was The Treaty of Gulistan: Гюлистанский договор; Persian: عهدنامه گلستان), which was prepared by the ambassador with the help of the British Foreign Office.

The treaty confirmed the inclusion of modern-day Azerbaijan, Daghestan and Eastern Georgia into the Russian Empire.

Ouseley may have visited Persepolis during his stay in Persia, as a group of reliefs from the site collected by him were donated to the British Museum in 1825.

[7] After his brother returned to England in 1813 to write, Ouseley left the next year, stopping off in St Petersburg.

The translation had been made by a friend, the Reverend Henry Martyn, and Mirza Saiyad Ali Kahn.

[11] His collection of Mughal paintings is at the Bodleian Library in Oxford (they were donated in 1859 by a Bengal civil servant, Mr. J.

[12] His son, The Reverend Canon Professor Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (12 August 1825 – 6 April 1889) was an English composer, organist, and musicologist.

He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1820 and created a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order in 1831.