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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  Badger    
First Name(s)  Rev. George Percy    
Year of Birth  1815    
Year of Death  1888    
Entry  Born in April, 1815 : spent his youth at Malta, and 1835-36 at Bairut to learn Arabic : ordained in 1841 : for his knowledge of the East and of Arabic was sent as a delegate to the Eastern Churches, including the Nestorians, in Kurdistan, 1842-5 and 1850 : appointed a Chaplain under the Bombay Government, 1845 : his knowledge of Arabic was utilised at Aden and under Outram in the Persian expedition of 1856-7 : in 1860 he helped to settle the troubles in Oman : was Secretary to Sir Bartle Frere's mission to Zanzibar, 1872 : D.C.L. in 1873 : died Feb. 21, 1888 : wrote The Nestorians and their Rituals, A History of the Imaums and Sayyids of Oman, 1871 : on Muhammad and Muhammadanism : and an English- Arabic Lexicon, besides other works : F.Z.S. : F.S.A.     
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