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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Marshman | | | First Name(s) | John Clark | | | Birth Year | 1794 | | | Death Year | 1877 | | | Entry | Born Aug. 18, 1794: son of Dr. Joshua Marshman (q.v.) : went out with his father in Oct. 1799 to Serampur in Bengal, where he received his education at the mission establishment of Carey (q.v.), Marshman (q.v.), and Ward (q.v.) : formally joined the brotherhood in 1819 and became an active director of its affairs, working, as a layman, for 20 years as a sort of secular and unpaid bishop : he set up the first paper-mill in India : issued the first monthly Bengali magazine, the Dig-Darsan, in April, 1818 : and, in the next month, issued the first weekly, the Samachar Darpan : the Friend of India was issued by him and his father, as a monthly, and later a quarterly Magazine, becoming a weekly paper from Jan. 1, 1835 : he was also for years the official Bengali Translator to Government. He also published Guide to the Civil Law of the Presidency of Fort William, 1845-6, a
Darogah Manual, 1850, and other law books : wrote constantly in the Calcutta Review : and other historical works. He was one of the founders of the Serampur College, at a cost of £30,000. He left India in 1852 : and was examined by Parliament before the renewal of the Charter in 1853, and influenced the Education despatch of 1854 : he also advocated the promotion of forestry, telegraphs and railways in India : and had an influential position in the E. I. Railway Company in London. He wrote The Life and Times of Carey, Marshman and Ward, 1859 ; Memoirs of Maj-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B., 1860 (his brother-in-law) : his History of India, 1863, 1867. He failed to obtain a seat in the new Council of India : was made C.S.I, in 1868 : died July 8, 1877. |
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