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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R
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 | Robertson | | First Name(s) | Charles | | Birth Year | 1833 | | Death Year | 1898 | | Entry | I.C.S : born at Aberdeen, Sep. 18, 1833 : son of Charles Robertson, ironmonger there : educated at the Grammar School, Marischal College and University, Aberdeen : M.A. with special honours, 1853 : taught in England : passed fifth in the first open competition for the I.C.S : went to the N.W.P. in 1856: became Junior Secretary to the N.W.P. Government, 1867, and Secretary to that Government and Oudh, 1877-82 : retired 1883-4, on account of his wife's health : served in Edinburgh : resumed his classical studies : became a leading spirit of the Hellenic Society under Blackie : founded, with £8,000, a Fellowship in Classics, Mental Science and Philosophy at Aberdeen University, in memory of his brother Professor George Croom Robertson, editor of Mind�a Fellowship designed to stimulate the higher study of the subjects named : died March 24, 1898. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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