Robert Frier Jardine

Robert Frier Jardine, (1894–1982), was a British colonial administrator, diplomat, military officer and Kurdish linguist. He served in Mesopotamia, Iraq and Mandatory Palestine between 1917 and 1948, holding a number of senior administrative posts concerned with frontier affairs, land settlement and water administration. He is best known for his linguistic study Bahdinan Kurmanji (1922), one of the earliest modern grammars of the Bahdinani dialect of Kurdish.