Henry Beveridge

Henry Beveridge (9 February 1837 – 8 November 1929) was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer and Orientalist in British India. His son William Beveridge was a noted British economist.

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.
• Translated John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religionfrom the original French into English. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-1-59856- 168-5.

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.  Cite uses deprecated parameters (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)

References

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