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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Richardson | | | First Name(s) | David Lester | | | Birth Year | 1801 | | | Death Year | 1865 | | | Entry | Born 1801 : son of Lt-Colonel David Thomas Richardson of the E. I. Co.'s Bengal Army ; joined the 2nd Bengal N. I. in 1819 : began in 1820 to contribute poetry to the Calcutta Journal : in 1822 published his miscellaneous poems : in 1824, returned for his health to England, published his Sonnets and other Poems, in 1825, and started The Weekly Review in 1827 : on its collapse, he returned to military service in Bengal in 1829 : Captain in Oct. 1832, and, on July 19, 1833, was invalided and retired as a Major. He was A.D.C. to Lord W. Bentinck, 1835. His life was afterwards devoted to education and literature. He undertook the editorship of the Calcutta Literary Gazette, the Calcutta Magazine, and the Bengal Annual. Later, he brought out his Literary Leaves, his Selections from the British Poets, Anglo- Indian Passage, Literary Chit-chat, Literary Recreations, Flowers and Flower Gardens, History of the Black Hole- of Calcutta. On (Lord) Macaulay's recommendation, the Trustees of the reconstituted Hindu College at Calcutta appointed him Professor of English Literature from Jan. 1836, and Principal in 1839. He was subsequently Principal of the new Krishnagar College (in 1845), of the Hughli College, and again of the Hindu College (1848-50), when he resigned his post and became tutor of (Maharaja Bahadur, Sir) Jotindra Mohan Tagore, and editor of the Bengal Hurkara. In 1859 he was appointed Principal of the Presidency College, Calcutta, but the Secretary of State disallowed the appointment. He retired to England, Feb. 4, 1861 : assisted in the editing of Allen's Overland Mail, and Homeward Mail, and edited the Court Circular : died Nov. 17, 1865. |
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