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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Haughton | | | First names | Graves Champney | | | Rank / occupation | Officer & Sir |  | Unit | Bengal Establishment | | | Death date | 28 Aug 1849 | | | Place of death | Near Paris  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Oct 1849 | | | Page number | 420 | | | Detail | [At St Cloud, near Paris, aged 62. 2nd son of Dr Haughton, of Dublin, by the dau. of Edward Archer, esq. of Mount John, co. Wicklow. ""In early life he went to India as a military cadet on the Bengal Establishment, but he retired from the army from ill health. Having applied himself to the study of oriental languages in the college of Fort William at Calcutta, he there obtained many honours. In 1817 he was appoined a professor at Haileybury college, from which he retired in 1827."" Hon. Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1831-32, member of the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, knighted in 1833. Author, including of dictionaries of Indian languages] |
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