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See also:COLEBROOKE, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1765-1837) , See also:English Orientalist, the third son of See also:Sir See also:George Colebrooke, 2nd See also:baronet, was See also:born in See also:London on the 15th of See also:June 1765. He was educated at See also:home; and when only fifteen he had made considerable attainments in See also:classics and See also:mathematics. From the See also:age of twelve to sixteen he resided in See also:France, and in 1782 was appointed to a .writership in See also:India. About a See also:year after his arrival there he was placed in the See also:board of accounts in See also:Calcutta; and three years later he was removed to a situation in the See also:revenue See also:department at See also:Tirhut. In 1789 he was removed to Purneah, where he investigated the resources of that See also:part of the See also:country, and published his Remarks on the Husbandry and See also:Commerce of See also:Bengal, privately printed in 1795, in which he advocated See also:free See also:trade between See also:Great See also:Britain and India. After eleven years' See also:residence in India, Colebrooke began the study of See also:Sanskrit; and to him was confided the See also:translation of the great See also:Digest of See also:Hindu See also:Laws, which had been See also:left unfinished by Sir 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 See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones. He translated the two See also:treatises Mitacshara and Dayabhaga under the See also:title See also:Law of See also:Inheritance. He was sent to See also:Nagpur in 1799 on a See also:special See also:mission, and on hia return was made a See also:judge of the new See also:court of See also:appeal, over which he afterwards presided. In 1805 See also:Lord See also:Wellesley appointed him See also:professor of Hindu Law and Sanskrit at the See also:college of Fort William. During his residence at Calcutta he wrote his Sanskrit See also:Grammar (18o5), some papers on the religious ceremonies of the See also:Hindus, and his See also:Essay on the Vedas (2805), for a See also:long 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 the See also:standard See also:work on the subject. He became member of See also:council in 1807 and returned to See also:England seven years later. He died on the 18th of See also:March 1837. He was a director of the See also:Asiatic Society, and many of the most valuable papers in the society's Transactions were communicated by him.
His See also:life was written by his son, Sir T. E. Colebrooke, in 1873.
End of Article: COLEBROOKE, HENRY THOMAS (1765-1837)
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