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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  Hislop    
First Name(s)  Stephen    
Year of Birth  1817    
Year of Death  1863    
Entry  Born Sep. 8, 1817 : son of Stephen Hislop, a mason : educated at Duns, Edinburgh University, Glasgow, and in divinity under Chalmers at Edinburgh : joined the Free Church of Scotland, 1843 : went out to India in 1844 as a missionary of the Free Church to Bombay : stationed at Sitabaldi, near Nagpur, in the Central Provinces ; and opened a school at Nagpur : through a warning from a native friend, he was able to save the lives of the Europeans there in the mutiny of 1857. He was drowned in trying to cross a swollen river, while on tour with the Chief Commissioner, Sir R. Temple, Sep. 4, 1863 : he had much ability, not only for his own work, but also in languages, philology, antiquarian research, geology, natural history, botany, zoology, entomology, and conchology. Sir R. Temple edited his Papers relatingtyo the Aboriginal Tribes of the Central Provinces, �the Gonds, and others.     
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