Horace Hayman Wilson
1786–1860
Orientalist. Assay-master at the Calcutta mint, 1811–19. Appointed secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1811. Boden professor of Sanskrit, Oxford University, 1832–60. Librarian to the East India Company, 1836–60. Director of the Royal Asiatic Society of London, 1837–60. FRS 1834.
Sources
DNB
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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