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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Atkinson    
First Name(s)  James    
Year of Birth  1780    
Year of Death  1852    
Entry  Born March 9, 1780 : studied medicine at Edinburgh and London : joined the Bengal Medical service, 1805 : Civil Surgeon at Backerganj, to 1813 : studied Persian : Assay Master of the Mint, 1813-28 : officiating Deputy Professor of Persian at Fort William College, 1818, Superintendent of the Government Gazette, 1817, and of the Press from 1823 : commenced the Calcutta Annual Register, 1823 : in 1833, became Surgeon to the 55th N.I. : in 1838-41, went to Kabul with the Army of the Indus, as Superintending Surgeon : returned to Bengal in 1841 : member of the Medical Board, 1845 : retired, 1847 : died Aug. 7, 1852 : published a number of translations from the Persian classics, many of them in verse, including a portion, and an epitome, of the Shah Nameh : edited the Persian Hatim Tax : contributed publications to the Oriental Translation Fund : e.g. On the Loves of Laili and Majnun : wrote, 1842, an illustrated narrative of the expedition into Afghanistan : was also an artist of considerable merit : brought out lithographed Sketches in Afghanistan.     
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