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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  Burnes    
First Name(s)  James    
Year of Birth  1801    
Year of Death  1862    
Entry  Elder brother of Sir Alexander Burnes, (q.v.) : born Feb. 12, 1801 : educated at Edinburgh University and London hospitals : went out to Bombay with his brother, 1821 : was Residency Surgeon at Cutch : in the expedition of 1825 against Sind : invited, in 1827, by the Amirs to Sind : from 1837, he held medical and other scientific appointments at Bombay, and was Secretary and Member of the Medical Board and, finally, Physician- General, retiring in 1849 : President of the Medical and Physical Society : Vice- President of the Bombay Asiatic Society : was LL.D. of Glasgow, 1834 : F.R.C.P. of Edinburgh : F.R.S. and a Knight of the Guelphic Order : wrote a Narrative of a Visit to Sind, and a History of Cutch : died Sep. 19, 1862.     
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