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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)  William    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1819    
Death Year  1905    
Entry  I.C.S. : born April 27, 1819 : son of William Muir : educated at Kilmarnock, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Universities, and Haileybury : entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1837: Secy, to the N.W.P. Government, 1852 : Member of the Board of Revenue, N.W.P., 1856 : during the mutiny was in charge of the Intelligence Department, Agra : Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council, 1864 : Secretary to the Government of India, in the Foreign Department, 1865 : Member of the Supreme Council, 1868 : Lieutenant-Governor, N.W.P., 1868-74 : Finance Minister in the Supreme Council, 1874-6 : Member of the Council of India, 1876-85 : Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Edinburgh University, 1885-02 : Author of Life of Mahomet, Annals of the early Caliphate, The Mameluke Dynasty, The Koran, etc.. The Muhammadan Controversy : K.C.S.I., 1867 : D.C.L., Oxford : LL.D. of Glasgow and Edinburgh : Ph.D. of Bologna : died July 11, 1905.     
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