Andrew Jukes (17 December 1774–10 November 1821) was a surgeon of the

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. He arrived in Iran in 1808 as a member of Sir Harford Jones’ diplomatic mission. Jukes

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Tehrani children against

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in 1813, in the hopes of stemming the ravages of an epidemic. His effort met with little success. He was married in 1814 in Paris to Georgina Ewart, granddaughter of

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and had four children, most of whom settled in Canada: Andrew John Jukes (1815), Mark Richard Jukes (1817), Augustus Jukes (1821, he was the surgeon who assisted at the trial of

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), and daughter Laura Eliza (1819-1836). Jukes stayed in Iran until his death (probably due to

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) in 1821. He was tended to during his last days by his travel companion, the Scottish writer

James Baillie Fraser James Baillie Fraser (11 June 1783 – 23 January 1856) was a Scotland, Scottish travel writer, and artist who illustrated and wrote about Anatolia, Asia Minor, Iran, Kurdistan and India. Some of his Watercolor painting, watercolours made in the ...

, who described Jukes's death in a letter to his father, how he 'closed the eyes of my only friend and companion'. Fraser oversaw his burial in the Armenian Monastery of Sourp Amenaprgich in

New Julfa New Julfa (, ''Now Jolfā'', or , ''Jolfâ-ye Now''; , ''Nor Jugha'') is the Armenians, Armenian quarter of Isfahan, Iran, located along the south bank of the Zayanderud. Established and named after the Gülüstan, Nakhchivan, older city of Julf ...

neighborhood of

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. Jukes was an avid painter and poet; his sketches of Persepolis and other locations in Persia were last known to be in the possession of his grandson Hamilton Augustus Jukes in Manitoba, Canada.

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External links

Encyclopedia Iranica
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