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Date transcribed	2011-05-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Johnson
	First Name(s)	Francis
	Year of Birth	1795
	Year of Death	1876
	Entry	Born 1795 : learnt Arabic and Sanskrit at Rome : Assistant Oriental Professor at Haileybury, 1824, and Professor from 1823, teaching Sanskrit, Bengali and Telugu : brought out the third edition of Richardson's Persian-Arabic dictionary, 1829, and a new edition, greatly revised and enlarged, in his own name, in 1852 : which he continued to revise : was strongest in Arabic : edited the Gulistan in 1863 : in Sanskrit he published the Hitopadesa, selections from the Mahabharata, and the Meghaduta, and assisted H. H. Wilson (q.v.) in completing his Sanskrit grammar : resigned his Professorship in 1855 : died at Hertford, Jan. 29, 1876.

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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each

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