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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  Forbes    
First Name(s)  Duncan    
Year of Birth  1798    
Year of Death  1868    
Entry  Born April 28, 1798, of poor parents : became a village schoolmaster : went to Perth Grammar School, 1818 : M.A. of St. Andrew's in 1823, and LL.D. in 1847: taught in Calcutta, at the Calcutta Academy, 1823-6 : became assistant teacher of Hindustani in London, 1826 : Professor of Oriental languages at King's College, London, taking pupils, 1837-61 : made a catalogue of the Persian MSS. at the British Museum, 1849-55 : wrote a History of Chess, including its invention in India : also a number of works, grammars, dictionaries, manuals in Oriental languages, Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Bengali : so that his name, though he made no claim to profound scholarship, is well known to students : Member of the Royal Asiatic Society : died Aug. 17, 1868.     
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