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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  Ouseley    
First Name(s)  Joseph W.J.    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1800    
Death Year  1889    
Entry  Colonel : born June 21, 1800 : educated at Limerick : went to Madras in 1819, joining the 98th Bengal N. I. : passed honour examinations in Arabic and Persian and became, in 1825, Professor of Sanskrit, Mahratti, Bengali, at the College of Fort William : and Secretary to the College : Superintendent of the Mysore Princes, 1838-44 : was Professor of Arabic and Persian at Haileybury, 1844- 59 : edited the Anwar-i-Suhaili : Examiner in Oriental Languages to the Civil Service Commission, 1862-83 : in 1857 was employed as Persian interpreter to the British Plenipotentiary, when negotiating with Persia the Treaty of Paris in 1857 : one of the Council of King's College : died Nov. 1889.     
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