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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  Price    
First Name(s)  David    
Birth Year  1762    
Death Year  1835    
Entry  Major : born 1762 : educated at Brecknock, and Jesus College, Cambridge : Sizar : enlisted in the E. I. Co.'s service : went to India, 1781 : served under Sir Hector Munro in Madras and against Tippoo up to 1783 : at the siege of Dharwar, Feb. 1791, lost a leg: Judge Advocate of the Bombay Army, 1795 : served in Poona, Surat, Seringapatam, and Malabar in 1797-8 : studied Persian : collected MSS. at Surat : Persian Translator to General James Stuart (q.v.) in the Mysore war : left India, 1805 : wrote works on Indian, Persian and Arabian History, including A Chronological Retrospect of Muhammadan History, 1811-21 ; Autobiography of the Emperor Jehangir, 1829 ; Autobiographical Memoirs, published 1839 : gold medallist of the Oriental Translation Committee: M.R.A.S.: M.R.S.L. : died Dec. 16, 1835.     
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