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See also:LEYDEN, See also:JOHN (1775-1811) , See also:British orientalist and See also:man of letters, was See also:born on the 8th of See also:September 1775 at Denholm on the 'reviot, not far from See also:Hawick. Leyden's See also:father was a shepherd, but contrived to send his son to See also:Edinburgh University to study for the See also:ministry. Leyden was a diligent but somewhat See also:miscellaneous student, See also:reading everything apparently, except See also:theology, for which he seems to have had no See also:taste. Though he completed his divinity course, and in 1798 received See also:licence to preach from the See also:presbytery of St See also:Andrews, it soon became clear that the See also:pulpit was not his vocation. In 1794 Leyden had formed the acquaintance of Dr See also:Robert See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson, editor of The British Poets, and of The See also:Literary See also:Magazine. It was Anderson who introduced him to Dr See also:Alexander See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray, and Murray, probably, who led him to the study of Eastern See also:languages. They became warm See also:friends and generous rivals, though Leyden excelled, perhaps, in the rapid acquisition of new See also:tongues and acquaintance with their literature, while Murray was the more scientific philologist. Through Anderson also he came to know See also:Richard See also:Heber, by whom he was brought under the See also:notice of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, who was then See also:collecting materials for his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Leyden was admirably fitted for helping in this See also:kind of See also:work, for he was a borderer himself, and an enthusiastic See also:lover of old See also:ballads and folk-See also:lore. Scott tells how, on one occasion, Leyden walked 40 M. to get the last two verses of a ballad, and returned at midnight, singing it all the way with his loud, harsh See also:voice, to the wonder and consternation of the poet and his See also:household.
Leyden meanwhile compiled a work on the Discoveries and Settlements of Europeans in See also:Northern and Western See also:Africa, suggested by Mungo See also:Park's travels, edited The Complaint of See also:Scotland, printed a See also:volume of Scottish descriptive poems, and nearly finished his Scenes of See also:Infancy, a diffuse poem based on border scenes and traditions. He also made some See also:translations from Eastern See also:poetry, See also:Persian and Arabic. At last his friends got him an See also:appointment in See also:India on the medical See also:staff, for which he qualified by a See also:year's hard work. In 1803 he sailed for See also:Madras, and took his See also:place in the See also:general See also:hospital there. He was promoted to be naturalist to the commissioners going to survey See also:Mysore, and in 1807 his knowledge of the languages of India procured him an appointment as See also:professor of Hindustani at See also:Calcutta; this he soon after resigned for a judgeship, and that again to be a See also:commissioner in the See also:court of See also:requests in 1800, a See also:post which required a familiarity with several Eastern tongues. In 1811 he joined See also:Lord See also:Minto in the expedition to See also:Java. Having entered a library which was said to contain many Eastern See also:MSS., without having the place aired, he was seized with Batavian See also:fever, and died, after three days' illness, on the 28th of See also:August 181r.
End of Article: LEYDEN, JOHN (1775-1811)
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