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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  Haughton    
First Name(s)  Graves Champney    
Year of Birth  1788    
Year of Death  1849    
Entry  Son of Dr. John Haughton : born 1788 : went to India in the E. I. Co.'s Bengal Army in 1808 : attained great proficiency in Oriental languages by study at Baraset and at the College of Fort William : in 1815 he returned to England from ill health : was appointed Assistant Oriental Professor at Haileybury, and became Professor of Sanskrit and Bengali, 1819- 27 : published Bengali works, and in 1825 an edition of the Sanskrit text of Manu : M.A. at Oxford : F.R.S. : was one of the originators of the Royal Asiatic Society and its Honorary Secretary, 1831-2 Member of foreign Asiatic Societies made in 1833 a Knight of the Guelphic Order : in 1833 he brought out a Bengali and Sanskrit dictionary, explained in English. He latterly occupied himself with science and metaphysics : wrote, 1833, an Inquiry into the Nature of Cholera and the Means of Cure : died of cholera at St. Cloud on Aug. 28, 1849.     
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