born: 23 January 1826;

died: 9 February 1903;

gender: male;

details:

the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University and a noted translator of Persian poetry;

lived in Calcutta as a professor of English history at Presidency College between 1856 and 1867 and as principal of the Sanskrit College (1858-1864);

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