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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography J to L

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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	Kay
	First Name(s)	William
	Titles	Rev.
	Year of Birth	1820
	Year of Death	1886
	Entry	Son of Thomas Kay : born April 8, 1820 : educated at Giggleswick and Lincoln College, Oxford : Scholar, Fellow and Tutor : Pusey and Ellerton : Hebrew Scholar : ordained 1843 : B.D., 1849 : D.D., 1855 : Principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta, 1849-65, where he exerted much influence : received a College living at Great Leigh's. Essex : Hon. Canon of St. Albans: was one of the revisers of the Old Testament in 1870, and devoted his life to his parish and to critical and learned works on the Scriptures : he died Jan. 16, 1886.

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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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