David Lorimer

David Robinson Lockhart "Lock" Lorimer (1876-1962) was a British officer, first in the Indian Army 1896 and then theIndian Political Service 1903-27. The Indian Political Service extended to the Middle East, and he was British Political Representative in Cairo during the First World War.

His wife, Emily Overend Lorimer, unofficially but powerfully was his aide in Cairo; she had been a tutor at Oxford before they married and later an authority on Naziism. He also had a high regard for the knowledge of Gertrude Bell.

They were both linguists, and he was known for publications about an language called Burushaski spoken in Hunza (in present-day Pakistan).