Henry Beveridge
| Henry Beveridge | |
|---|---|
| Born |
9 February 1837 Scotland |
| Died |
8 November 1929 London, England |
| Occupation | Orientalists |
| Spouse(s) | 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. 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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Henry Beveridge Genealogy". Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- William Beveridge, India Called Them, London, 1947;
- M D Hussain, 19th Century Indian Historical Writing In English, Calcutta, 1992.
External links
- Works by Henry Beveridge at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Henry Beveridge at Internet Archive
- Works by Henry Beveridge at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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