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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
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.

Surnames  Halhed    
First Name(s)  Nathaniel Brassey    
Year of Birth  1751    
Year of Death  1830    
Entry  I.C.S. : born May 25, 1751 : son of William Halhed, Director of the Bank of England : educated at Harrow, and Christ Church, Oxford : went to Bengal in the E.I. Co.'s service : published A Code of Gentoo Laws on Ordinations of the Pandits, from a Persian Translation, 1776 : and in 1778 a Bengali grammar, printed at Hughli, at the first printing press in India : in its preface, he drew attention to the similarity between Sanskrit and European languages : returned to England, 1785 : M.P. for Lymington, 1790-5 : took the part of the lunatic prophet Richard Brothers, an act which was fatal to his career : in 1809 he was appointed to a post in the East India House : he imitated Martial's epigrams and translated Aristaenetus : he wrote A Narrative of the Events in Bombay and Bengal relative to the Mahratta Empire, 1779 : his Oriental MSS. were purchased by the British Museum : died Feb. 18, 1830.    
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