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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  Murphy    
First Name(s)  Robert Xavier    
Birth Year  1803    
Death Year  1857    
Entry  Sir G. Birdwood, in a letter to the Times, states, of Murphy, that he went out to Bombay as a master under the Bombay Native Education Society: a classical scholar and quick at acquiring Oriental languages : edited the Bombay Gazette, 1834 : acted, 1839, as Secretary to the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, and as Editor of the Bombay Times before Dr. G. Buist (q.v.) : Oriental Translator to Government, 1852 : wrote largely on Oriental subjects, philological, literary, antiquarian, sociological, ethnographical, and the folk-lore of Bombay ; had a map of Bombay, town and island, prepared : wrote in the Journal of the Geographical Society, Bombay, and in the Dublin University Magazine : was the first to invent and apply the expression ""Towers of Silence"" to the places where the Parsis expose their dead : his health failed, and he was sent home, 1855 : died at Kingstown, Dublin, Feb. 26, 1857.     
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