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See also:HALHED, NATHANIEL See also:BRASSEY (1751-1830) , See also:English Orientalist and philologist, was See also:born at See also:Westminster on the 25th of May 1751. He was educated at See also:Harrow, where he began his intimacy with See also:Richard Brinsley See also:Sheridan (see SHERIDAN See also:FAMILY) continued after he entered See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where, also, he made the acquaintance of See also: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, the famous Orientalist, who induced him to study Arabic. Accepting a writership in the service of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company, Halhed went out to India, and here, at the See also:suggestion of See also:Warren See also:Hastings, by whose orders it had been compiled, translated the Gentoo See also:code from a See also:Persian version of the See also:original See also:Sanskrit. This See also:translation was published in 1776 under the See also:title A Code of Gentoo See also:Laws. In 1978 he published a See also:Bengali See also:grammar, to See also:print which he set up, at See also:Hugli, the first See also:press in India. It is claimed for him that he was the first writer to See also:call See also:attention to the philological connexion of Sanskrit with Persian, Arabic, See also:Greek and Latin. In 1785 he returned to See also:England, and from 1790—1795 was M.P. for See also:Lymington, Hants. For some 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 he was a See also:disciple of Richard See also:Brothers (q.v), and his unwise speech in See also:parliament in See also:defence of Brothers made it impossible for him to remain in the See also:House, from which he resigned in 1795. He subsequently obtained a See also:home See also:appointment under the East India Company. He died in See also:London on the 18th of See also:February 1830.
His collection of See also:Oriental See also:manuscripts was See also:purchased by the See also:British Museum, and there is an unfinished translation by him of the Mahabadrala in the library of the See also:Asiatic Society of See also:Bengal.
End of Article: HALHED, NATHANIEL BRASSEY (1751-1830)
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