Henry Frederick Amedroz

Henry Frederick Amedroz (8 November 1854 – March 1917) was a leading British orientalist.

[1] He was of French Huguenot descent through his father, and through his mother he was descended from a mixed-race family of planters from Grenada.

[2] Amedroz was educated at Winchester College, gaining an entrance scholarship there in 1866.

Wealthy thanks to an inheritance from his mother's family, he was able to retire while still in his forties, and became a noted scholar of the early Islamic period, with a particular focus on the history of manuscripts and of coins.

His books include The historical remains of Hilāl al-Sābi (1904) and History of Damascus, 263-555 A.H., by Ibn al-Qalānisi (1908), while journal articles appeared in The Journal of the Asiatic Society, as well as German and Italian academic publications.