Henry Beveridge

Henry Beveridge
Born	9 February 1837 Scotland
Died	8 November 1929 London, England
Occupation	Orientalists
Spouse	Annette Akroyd
Children	William Beveridge

Henry Beveridge (9 February 1837 – 8 November 1929) was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer and Orientalist in British India. He is one the few administrator-historians who studied Indian affairs with a radical outlook.

His son William Beveridge was a noted British economist.

Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Later career 3 Personal life 4 Works 5 See also 6 Further reading 7 References

Early life and career

Later career

Personal life

He married Annette Akroyd, daughter of William Akroyd. The couple has two children a daughter, Annette Jeanie Beveridge (d. 1956) and son William Beveridge 1st (1879–1963) was a noted British economist and social reformer, and first and last Baron Beveridge.^[1]

He lived at Pitfold, Shottermill, Surrey, England and died in 1929.^[1]

Works

• Life and Manners in Bengal
• Christianity in India
• Were Sundarbans Inhabited in Ancient Times?
• Timur’s Apocryphal Memoirs
• The Trial of Maharaja Nanda Kumar, A Narrative of a Judicial Murder (১৮৮৬) (1886)
• District of Bakarganj: Its History and Statistics ১৮৭৬
• Warren Hastings in Lower Bengal
• The Story of Nuncumar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey

Translations Works

• The Tūzuk-i-Jahangīrī Or Memoirs Of Jahāngīr, Alexander Rogers and Henry Beveridge. London, Royal Asiatic Society, 1909–1914.
• The Akbarnama of Abu-L-Fazl, Vol. I & II, Delhi: Low Price Publications, (1902–39, Reprint 2010). ISBN 81 7536 482 3.
• The Akbarnama of Abu-L-Fazl, Vol. III, Delhi: Low Price Publications, (1902–39, Reprint 2010). ISBN 81 7536 483 1.
• The Akbarnama of Abu-L-Fazl, Set of 3 Volumes, Bound in 2, Delhi: Low Price Publications, (1902–39, Reprint 2010). ISBN 81 7536 481 5.

See also

• William Beveridge
• Annette Akroyd
• Akbarnama

Further reading

• Fazl, Abul; (tr. from Persian by H. Beveridge) (1897 - 1939). The Akbarnama (Vol. I-III). Asiatic Society, Calcutta. http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D00701020%26ct%3D0. 

References

• William Beveridge, India Called Them, London, 1947;
• M D Hussain, 19th Century Indian Historical Writing In English, Calcutta, 1992.

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Name	Beveridge, Henry
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Date of birth	9 February 1837
Place of birth	Scotland
Date of death	8 November 1929
Place of death	London, England