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| 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 | Eastwick | | | First Name(s) | Edward Backhouse | | | Year of Birth | 1814 | | | Year of Death | 1883 | | | Entry | Born 1814 : son of Capt. Robert William Eastwick : educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford : Postmaster : joined a Bombay N.I. regt., 1836 : early devoted himself to Oriental languages : served in the Political Department in Kattiawar and Sind : did literary work, on the History of the Pars: s and a Sindi vocabulary : about 1842 he gave up India, through ill-health : studied at Frankfort and translated Bopp's Comparative Grammar : noticed by H. H. Wilson {q.v.), and appointed Professor of Hindustani at the E.I. College, Haileybury, 1845 : F.R.S., 1851 : Assistant Political Secretary at the India Office, 1859 : called to the bar, Middle Temple, i860 : Secretary of Legation at Teheran to the Court of Persia, 1860-3 : published The Journal of a Diplomatist : Commissioner for arranging a Venezuelan loan, 1864 and 1867 : Private Secretary to Lord Cranborne (afterwards Marquis of Salisbury) when Secretary of State for India, July, 1866, to March, 1867 : C.B. : M.P. for Penrhyn and Falmouth, 1868-74 : M.A., Oxford, 1875 : translated the Gulistan, the Anwar-i-Suhaili, Prem Sagar, Bagh-o- Bahar, and other works in Oriental languages : made several journeys to India : wrote a Hindustani grammar, Murray's Handbooks for India, accounts of his experiences in Sind, Persia, and Venezuela, and the Kaisamama-i-Hind (an account of the native states, etc.), and articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica : was F.S.A. : died July 16, 1883. |
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