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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
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  Empson    
First Name(s)  William    
Year of Birth  1791    
Year of Death  1852    
Entry  Born in 1791 : educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge : B.A., 1812 : between 1823 and 1849 wrote largely for the Edinburgh Review, a valued contributor on political, legal, and literary subjects : he edited the Review from 1849 to 1852. His friendship with Dr. Arnold, begun at Winchester, continued through life. He was appointed in 1824 Professor of Polity and the Laws of England at the E.I. Co.'s College, Haileybury. His lectures, especially those on general jurisprudence and Indian law, were much appreciated by the better students. He was much liked by his pupils, over whom he had considerable influence. To form the mind of those young men, many of whom, as magistrates and judges, were to affect the interests of thousands and millions, was to him a duty of a solemn, or rather of a sacred, kind. He died Dec. 10, 1852.     
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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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