John Buchan Telfer (1830 – 1907) was a British Captain in the Royal Navy and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London since 1875.
[1] He who took part in the Crimean War (1853–56) and was awarded the Baltic Medal.
[2] He removed a small basalt sculpture from the Garni Temple in Armenia and bequeathed it to the British Museum.
[1][3] He is remembered for his two volume (I & II) account, The Crimea and Transcaucasia, published in 1876,[1] which, The Geographical Journal said upon his death, "has a permanent value as a mine of curious information and an accurate description of Transcaucasia at that date.
"[2] In 1888 Douglas Freshfield called him "one of our best recent authorities on the Caucasus.