George Percy Churchill

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George Percy Churchill CBE FSA (1877–1973) was a British historian and diplomat. He was born in 1877, the son of Henry Adrian Churchill, an archaeologist and British diplomat. Three of his four brothers—Harry Lionel, Sidney John Alexander William Algernon—also became diplomats. In 1906 he married Muriel East (died 1968); they had two sons.

From 1903 he served as Oriental Secretary at the British Legation in Tehran and learned Persian. He translated The Constitution granted to Persia, issued on 30 December 1906, and wrote Farhang-i rijāl-i Qājār. In 1906 he published Biographical Notices of Persian Statesmen and Notables, a work with an index of prominent Qajar statesmen, notes, genealogical tables, and more than 300 seal impressions. Copies are held at the India Office records in the British Library, the Foreign Office records at the National Archives, and libraries in Bamberg, Cambridge, and Canberra. The collection is valued as an important source on British views of Qajar Iran, containing many seals and Persian signatures, along with notes, typewritten pages, newspaper excerpts and portraits.

In 1919 he worked for the Foreign Office and accompanied the Shah of Persia on his state visit to England; he was awarded the first class of the Order of the Lion and Sun. In 1924 he became British Consul-General in Algiers, a post his father had held in 1863. In 1927 he wrote A Historical Sketch of Algeria.