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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  Muir    
First Name(s)  John    
Birth Year  1810    
Death Year  1882    
Entry  I.C.S. : son of William Muir of Glasgow : born Feb. 5, 1810 : educated at Irvine, Glasgow University, and Hailevbury : went to India in 1829: served in the N.W.P. : Collector of Azimghar : in 1844 was Principal of the Victoria or Queen's College at Benares : Judge ot Fatehpur: retired in 1854: was made D.C.L. of Oxford in 1855 ; LL.D. of Edinburgh in 1861 ; C.I.E. in 1878 : Doctor of Philosophy of Bonn: and member of learned Foreign Societies. He commenced the study of Sanskrit early in his Indian career : founded, in 1862, a professorship of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Edinburgh University. He wrote, both in India and England, a number of Sanskrit works, on Indian history, biography and religious subjects, and Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, 5 vols. : he specially studied the Vedas, and contributed articles on India to the Indian Antiquary, the Bengal Asiatic Society's and Royal Asiatic Society's Journals : died March 7, 1882     
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