George Percy Badger was born at Chelmsford in 1815. His father served in the British Army and in 1821 his regiment was transferred in Malta. After his father"s death in 1823, George"s mother decided to raise her sons in Malta, thus George Badger passed there his youth where he learned the Maltese language and Arabic, which he studied also in Bairut from 1835.
He is mainly known for his doctrinal and historical studies about the Church of the East. On 8 January 1840 Badger married Maria Wilcox in Valletta. He returned to England in 1841, and after some theological studies at the Church Missionary College, Islington, he was ordained Anglican priest in 1842.
On his return to England in 1845 he was appointed chaplain in Bombay.
Thence he was transferred to Aden, where he chiefly resided during the remainder of his term of service. He served as staff chaplain and Arabic interpreter to the force in the Anglo-Persian War.
Badger returned to England in 1861, and in the same year again joined Sir James Outram in the latter"s visit to Egypt. In 1862 he left the service, and devoted himself henceforth mainly to literature.
In 1872 he left England serving as secretary and interpreter of Sir Bartle Frere in a diplomatic travel in Zanzibar.
In recognition of his various services Badger was, in 1873, created Doctorate.C.L. by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Knight of the Crown by King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy in the same year. George Percy Badger died on 21 February 1888, at his residence in London and he was buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery.
