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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  Johnstone    
First Name(s)  Charles    
Year of Birth  1719 ?    
Year of Death  1800 ?    
Entry  Born in Limerick county about 1719 : educated at Dublin University : called to the bar : took to literature : wrote 1760-5, a novel, Chrysal : or, the Adventures of a Guinea, which made a sensation : werlt to India in 1782, shipwrecked on the way : at Calcutta acquired a fortune : became joint proprietor of a newspaper in Bengal, and contributed regularly to the periodical press under the nom de plume of Oneiropolos : wrote other novels : died in 1800 in Calcutta, though the place of his death has been disputed.     
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