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BIRDWOOD, See also:SIR See also:GEORGE See also:CHRISTOPHER See also:MOLESWORTH (1832– ) , Anglo-See also:Indian See also:official and writer, son of See also:General Christopher Birdwood, was See also:born at See also:Belgaum, in the Bombay See also:presidency, on the 8th of See also:December 1832. He was educated at See also:Plymouth See also:grammar-school and See also:Edinburgh University, where he took his M.D. degree. Entering the Bombay Medical Service in 1854, he served in the See also:Persian See also:War of 1856–57, and subsequently became See also:professor at the See also:Grant Medical See also:College, registrar of the university, See also:curator of the museum, and See also:sheriff at Bombay, besides acting as secretary of the See also:Asiatic and Horticultural See also:societies. His See also:work on the Economic See also:Vegetable Products of the Bombay Presidency reached its twelfth edition in 1868. He interested himself prominently also in the municipal See also:life of the See also:city, where he acquired See also:great See also:influence and popularity. He was obliged by See also:ill-See also:health in 1868 to return to See also:England, where he entered the See also:revenue and See also:statistics See also:department of the See also:India See also:Office (1871–1902). Whilst engaged there he published important volumes on the See also:industrial arts of India, the See also:ancient records of the India Office, and the first See also:letter-See also:book of the See also:East India See also:Company. He devoted much See also:time and See also:energy to the encouragement of Indian See also:art, on yarious aspects of which he wrote valuable monographs, and his name was identified with the See also:representation of India at all the See also:principal See also:international exhibitions from 1857 to 1901. (See See also:Journal of Indian Art, vol. viii. " The Life and Work of Sir George Birdwood.") His researches on the subject of See also:incense (Trans. Linn. See also:Soc. See also:xxvii., 1871; Ency.

Brit. 9th ed., " Incense," 1881; revised for the See also:

present edition by him), a See also:good example of his mastery of detail, have made his See also:historical and botanical See also:account of this subject a classic. Nor can his lifelong association with journal-ism of the best sort be overlooked. From boyhood he was a diligent contributor of See also:special See also:information to magazines and See also:newspapers; in India he helped to convert the See also:Standard into the Times of India, and edited the Bombay Saturday See also:Review; and after his return to See also:London he wrote for the See also:Pall Mall, See also:Athenaeum, See also:Academy, and Times; and with See also:Chenery, the editor of The Times, and others he took the initiative (1882) in celebrating the anniversary of See also:Lord See also:Beaconsfield's See also:death as " See also:Prim-See also:rose See also:Day" (See also:April 19). He kept up his connexion with India by See also:constant co1lributions to the .Indian See also:press; and his See also:long friendships with Indian princes and the leading educated native See also:Indians made his intimate knowledge of the See also:country of See also:peculiar value in the handling of the problems of the Indian See also:empire. In 1887 he was created a K.C.I.E.; and, besides being given his LL.D. degree by See also:Cambridge, he was also made an officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour and a See also:laureate of the See also:French Academy.

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