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EASTWICK, EDWARD BACKHOUSE (1814–1883)

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EASTWICK, See also:EDWARD BACKHOUSE (1814–1883) , See also:British Orientalist, was See also:born in 1814, a member of an Anglo-See also:Indian See also:family. Educated at See also:Charterhouse and at See also:Oxford, he joined the Bombay See also:infantry in 1836, but, owing to his See also:talent for See also:languages, was soon given a See also:political See also:post. In 1843 he translated the See also:Persian Kessahi Sanjdn, or See also:History of the Arrival of the Parsecs in See also:India; and he wrote a See also:Life of Zoroaster, a See also:Sindhi vocabulary, and various papers in the transactions of the Bombay See also:Asiatic Society. Compelled by See also:ill-See also:health to return to See also:Europe, he went to See also:Frankfort, where he learned See also:German and translated See also:Schiller's Revolt of the See also:Netherlands and See also:Bopp's See also:Comparative See also:Grammar. In 1845 he was appointed See also:professor of Hindustani at Haileybury See also:College. Two years later he published a Hindustani grammar, and, in subsequent years, a new edition of the Gulistdn, with a See also:translation in See also:prose and See also:verse, also an edition with vocabulary of the See also:Hindi translation by Lail-6. of Chatur Chuj Misr's Prem Sagdr, and See also:translations of the Bagh-o-Bahar, and of the Anvdr-i Suhaili of Bfdpaf. In 1851 he was elected a See also:Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1857–1858 he edited The Autobiography of Latfullah. He also edited for the See also:Bible Society the See also:Book of See also:Genesis in the Dakhani See also:language. From 186o to 1863 he was in See also:Persia as secretary to the British See also:Legation, See also:publishing on his return The See also:Journal of a Diplomate. In r866 he became private secretary to the secretary of See also:state for India, See also:Lord Cranborne (afterwards See also:marquess of See also:Salisbury), and in 1867 went, as in 1864, on a See also:government See also:mission to See also:Venezuela. On his return he wrote, at the See also:request of See also:Charles See also:Dickens, for All the See also:Year See also:Round, " Sketches of Life in a See also:South See also:American See also:Republic." From 1868 to 1874 he was M.P. for See also:Penryn and See also:Falmouth.

In 1875 he received the degree of M.A. with the See also:

franchise from the university of Oxford, " as a slight recognition of distinguished services." At various times he wrote several of See also:Murray's Indian See also:hand-books. His last See also:work was the Kaisarnamah-i-See also:Hind (" the See also:lay of the empress "), in two volumes (1878-1882). He died at See also:Ventnor, Isle of See also:Wight, on the 16th of See also:July 1883.

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