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Surname  Leyden    
First names  John    
Rank/ occupation  Doctor & Interpreter    
Unit  Lord Minto    
Death date  1811    
Place of death  Cornelis    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  1811 Suppl. Part II    
Page number  656    
Detail  Lately. At Cornelis, Batavia, Dr. John Leyden. This learned gentleman accompanied Lord Minto, in his expedition to Java, as interpreter. His acqusition of languages was wonderful; besides being an eminent classical scholar, he was master of the language of the East, and had a strong natural genius for poetry; he assisted Walter Scott in his first popular work, ""The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"" and the motto to Marmion was taken by Scott from one of his popular odes [see also May 1812, page 486].    
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