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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed	2011-01-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Colebrooke
	First Name(s)	Sir Thomas Edward
	Titles	Baronet
	Year of Birth	1813
	Year of Death	1890
	Entry	Son of Henry Thomas Colebrooke (q.v.) : born in Calcutta in 1813 : succeeded as Baronet in 1838 : was nearly 40 years M.P. for Taunton and Lanarkshire : was not a scholar, but was in sympathy with Oriental scholars and with research : was President of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1864-6, 1875-7, 1881 : published the Life of Mountstuart Elphinstone, Essays by H. T. Colebrooke, The Creeds of India, a pamphlet : edited and published a third volume of Elphinstone's India : died Jan. 11, 1890.

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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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