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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  Erskine    
First Name(s)  William    
Year of Birth  1773    
Year of Death  1852    
Entry  Son of David Erskine : born Nov. 8, 1773 : educated at the Royal High School and Edinburgh University : was a lawyer's apprentice, 1792-9 : went to India in 1803-4 with Sir James Mackintosh : at Bombay he became clerk to the Small Cause Court, a stipendiary magistrate, Secretary and Vice-President to the Literary Society�to which he contributed numerous articles on the Parsis, their language, religion and literature, and on the Buddhists, etc. : became Master in Equity in the Recorder's Court in 1820 : was a Member of Mountstuart Elphinstone's Committee for framing the Bombay code of Regulations : he left India in 1823, having lost his legal offices on a charge of defalcations : in 1826 he published his translation of Babar's autobiographical memoirs from a Persian version, with a full commentary, a standard work. He was Provost of St. Andrew's, 1836-9 : died at Edinburgh, May 20, 1852 : wrote History of India under Babar and Humayun, edited by his son, 1854.     
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