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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  Burrow    
First Name(s)  Reuben    
Year of Birth  1747    
Year of Death  1792    
Entry  A distinguished mathematician and astronomer : born Dec. 30, 1747: son of a farmer : educated at Leeds : became a clerk, usher, schoolmaster, assistant astronomer and schoolmaster at Greenwich, arithmetical teacher at the Tower, edited the Royal Almanack, went to India in 1782, learnt Sanskrit : wrote to Warren Hastings, then Governor-General : appointed to teach mathematics to the Engineers, and on the Survey of Bengal : an early member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for whom, and the Asiatic Researches, he contributed eleven papers about the mathematics and astronomy of the Hindus : died at Baxar, June 7, 1792.     
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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