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Date transcribed2011-05-01
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  Jeremie    
First Name(s)  James Amiraux    
Titles  Very Rev.    
Year of Birth  1802    
Year of Death  1872    
Entry  Son of James Jeremie, merchant : born April 12, 1802 : educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey; Blundell's School, Tiverton ; Trinity College, Cambridge : distinguished himself : Fellow : ordained, 1830 : Professor of Classical and General Literature at the E. I. Co.'s College at Haileybury, 1830-50 : Christian Advocate in the University, Cambridge, Dean at Haileybury, 1838 : Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, 1850-70 : Dean of Lincoln, 1864-72 : D.D. in 1850 : D.C.L. in 1862 : as Dean he presided over the discipline of the College : though much liked, his sensitive and nervous temperament rendered him unsuccessful as a disciplinarian : he was excellent as a classical lecturer and preacher : of fastidious and refined taste. It was written of him that his labour at Haileybury contributed in no slight measure to the formation of that high and firm tone of character in the East Indian Civil Service, which was signally displayed when the mutiny of 1857 broke out : died June 11, 1872.     
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