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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  Buist    
First Name(s)  George    
Year of Birth  1805    
Year of Death  1860    
Entry  Doctor : born Aug. 22, 1805 : son of the Rev. J. Buist : educated at St. Andrews and Edinburgh : became a preacher and lecturer, and editor of newspapers in Scotland from 1832 to 1839, when he became editor of the Bombay Times till 1857 : he opposed the Government policy in Kabul in 1842 : from Jan. 1858 he brought out the Bombay Standard, which was amalgamated with the Bombay Times in 1860. He was Inspector of Observatories in Bombay for many years, and wrote on scientific subjects, meteorology, geology, antiquities, for the Bombay Asiatic Society's Journal : he was instrumental in the establishment of a number of observatories, and founded the Bombay Reformatory School of Industry : a Municipal Commissioner in Bombay : appointed, in 1859, Superintendent of the Government Press, Allahabad, and Curator of Government books : died at Calcutta, Oct. 1, 1860 : described as ""India's foremost man of letters, not only famous as the most successful of Indian journalists, but as the thoughtful and enterprising man of science"" : he devoted himself to scientific philanthropy.     
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