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Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F
Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | 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 | Danvers | | First Name(s) | Frederick Charles | | Year of Birth | ? | | Year of Death | ? | | Entry | Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and King's College, London : joined the East India House as a writer, 1853 : and the India Office, 1858 : Registrar and Superintendent of Records, 1884 : deputed to Lisbon, 1891-2, to examine the Portuguese records relating to India, and to the Hague, 1893-4 : wrote extensively on Indian questions, including public works, famines, coal, statistics, agriculture, on Chiefs, Agents, and Governors of Bengal, 1888 : The India Office Records, 1889 : on the Portuguese records and A History of the Portuguese in India, 1894. |
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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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