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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Macdonell    
First Name(s)  Arthur Anthony    
Birth Year  1854    
Entry  Son of Charles Alexander Macdonell of the Indian Army : born May 11,1854 at Muzaffarpur : educated at the Public School Gottingen 1870 : University 1875-6 : Corpus College Oxford 1876-80 : B.A. 1883 : Ph.D. Leipzig 1884: Taylorian Teacher of German Oxford University 1880-99 : Deputy Professor of Sanskrit 1888-99 : Boden Professor of Sanskrit since 1899 : Fellow of Balliol College 1899 : Keeper of the Indian Institute Oxford : representative of Great Britian in Sanskrit at the International Congress of Arts and Science at St. Louis Sep. 1904 : has written the Sarvamikramani of the Rigveda (Anecdota Oxoniensia) 1886 ; a Sanskrit English dictionary 1892 ; Vedic Mythology 1897 : a History of Sanskrit Literature 1900 ; a Sanskrit grammar 1901 ; the Bhraddevata . 1904     
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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