Marjory Wardrop

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Marjory Scott Wardrop (11 November 1869 – 7 December 1909) was an English scholar and translator of Georgian literature. She was a sister of the British diplomat and scholar of Georgia, Sir Oliver Wardrop.

Fluent in seven foreign languages, she also learned Georgian and traveled to Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) in 1894-5 and 1896. She translated and published Georgian Folk Tales (London, 1894), The Hermit by Ilia Chavchavadze (London, 1895), The Life of St. Nino (Oxford, 1900), etc. She also made the first English prose translation of The Knight in the Panther's Skin, a medieval Georgian epic poem by Shota Rustaveli (published by Oliver Wardrop in London, 1912). After her death, Sir Oliver created the Marjory Wardrop Fund at Oxford University "for the encouragement of the study of the language, literature, and history of Georgia, in Transcaucasia."{{cite web |title=Oliver & Marjory Wardrop – Roots of Diplomatic Relationship |url=http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1058276236258 |website=British Embassy |accessdate=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060228001513/http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1058276236258 |archive-date=2006-02-28 |url-status=dead}}{{cbignore|bot=InternetArchiveBot}}Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007), [http://www.georgianbiography.com/bios/w/wardrop.htm Wardrop, Oliver and Marjory Scott.] Dictionary of Georgian National Biography. Retrieved on May 8, 2007.

A statue of Marjory and Oliver, by Jumber Jikia, was unveiled on 18 October 2015,{{cite web|title=The monument to Oliver and Marjory Wardrops opened near the Parliament|url=http://www.parliament.ge/en/media/axali-ambebi/parlamenttan-oliver-da-mardjori-uordropebis-dzegli-gaixsna.page|website=Parliament of Georgia|accessdate=15 March 2018|language=en}} during the Tbilisoba festival, in Tbilisi's Oliver Wardrop Square, which itself opened during the 2014 Tbilisoba.{{cite web |title=Oliver Wardrop Square opened adjacent to the Parliament |url=http://www.parliament.ge/en/parlamentarebi/chairman/chairmannews/parlamentis-mimdebare-teritoriaze-oliver-uordropis-saxelobis-skveri-sazeimod-gaixsna.page |website=Parliament of Georgia |accessdate=15 March 2018}} A room in the National Library in the city also bears their names.{{Cite episode |title=Batumi to Baku |series=Great Continental Railway Journeys |series-link=Great Continental Railway Journeys |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09w87tj/great-continental-railway-journeys-series-6-2-batumi-to-baku |accessdate=15 March 2018 |network= BBC Television |date=2018-03-15 |series-no=6 |number=2 }}