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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  Mill    
First Name(s)  William Hodge    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Rev. D.D.    
Birth Year  1792?    
Death Year  1853    
Entry  Born about 1792 : educated by Dr. Belsham, the Unitarian preacher : went to Cambridge : sixth Wrangler in 1813 : Fellow of Trinity College, 1814 : for 5 years studied Oriental languages : appointed Principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta, 1820, then recently established : learnt Sanskrit and the vernacular languages : published an Arabic version of the Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms : and the Christa Sangita, the Life of Christ, rendered into 5,000 stanzas of Sanskrit, his own compilation : gave much attention to education : was Vice-President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal : deciphered the inscriptions on the Allahabad column, and wrote on the inscriptions on pillars and on the ancient history of India : returned to England, 1837 : failed as a candidate for the Sanskrit Professorship at Oxford : became Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1839 : and Christian Advocate at Cambridge, 1840 : also Regius Professor of Hebrew there, 1848, and a Canon of Ely : F.R.A.S. : a profound Oriental scholar : D.D. : died Dec. 25, 1853.     
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