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See also:BURNES, See also:SIR See also:ALEXANDER (1805–1841) , See also:British traveller and explorer, was See also:born at See also:Montrose, See also:Scotland, in 18o5. While serving in See also:India, in the See also:army of the See also:East India See also:Company, which he had joined in his seventeenth See also:year, he made himself acquainted with Hindustani and See also:Persian, and thus obtained an See also:appointment as interpreter at See also:Surat in 1822. Transferred to See also:Cutch in 1826 as assistant to the See also:political See also:agent, he turned his See also:attention more particularly to the See also:history and See also:geography of See also:north-western India and the adjacent countries, at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time very imperfectly known. His proposal in 1829 to undertake a See also:journey of exploration through the valley of the See also:Indus was not carried out owing to political apprehensions; but in 1831 he was sent to See also:Lahore with a See also:present of horses from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV. to Maharaja Ranjit Singh and took See also:advantage of the opportunity for extensive investigations. In the following years his travels were extended through See also:Afghanistan across the See also:Hindu Kush to.
See also:Bokhara and See also:Persia. The narrative which he published on his visit to See also:England in 1834 added immensely to contemporary knowledge of the countries traversed, and was one of the most popular books of the time. The first edition brought the author the sum of Boo, and his services were recognized not only by the Royal See also:Geographical Society of See also:London, but also by that of See also:Paris. Soon after his return to India in 1835 he was appointed to the See also:court of See also:Sind to secure a treaty for the See also:navigation of the Indus; and in 1836 he undertook a political See also:mission to Dost Mahommed at See also:Kabul. He advised See also:Lord See also:Auckland to support Dost Mahommed on the See also:throne of Kabul, but the See also:viceroy preferred to follow the See also:opinion of Sir William See also:Macnaghten and reinstated Shah Shuja, thus leading up to the disasters of the first Afghan See also:War. On the restoration of Shah Shuja in 1839, he became See also:regular political agent at Kabul, and remained there till his assassination in 1841 (on the and of See also:November), during the See also:heat of an insurrection. The calmness with which he continued at his See also:post, See also:long after the imminence of his danger was apparent, gives an heroic colouring to the See also:close of an See also:honour-able and devoted See also:life. It came to See also:light in 1861 that some of Burnes' despatches from Kabul in 1839 had been altered, so as to convey opinions opposite to his, but Lord See also:Palmerston refused after such a See also:lapse of time to See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant the inquiry demanded in the See also:House of See also:Commons. A narrative of his later labours was published in 1842 under the See also:title of Cabool.
See Sir J. W. See also:Kaye, Lives of See also:Indian See also:Officers (1889).
End of Article: BURNES, SIR ALEXANDER (1805–1841)
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