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Occupation
  
Orientalists


Name
  
Henry Beveridge

Born
  
9 February 1837
Scotland

Died
  
November 8, 1929, London, United Kingdom

Spouse
  
Annette Beveridge (m. 1875)

Children
  
William Henry Beveridge Beveridge

Books
  
Tuzuk-i-jahangiri Or Memoirs Of Jahangir2 Vols. Bound In One

Henry Beveridge (9 February 1837 – 8 November 1929) was an Indian Civil Service officer and Orientalist in British India.

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Life and family

He married Annette Akroyd, one of the first graduates of Bedford College and translator of Persian and Turki texts. The couple had two children: a daughter, Annette Jeanie Beveridge (d. 1956), who married R. H. Tawney, and a son, William Beveridge (1879–1963), a noted economist who gave his name to the report associated with the foundation of the welfare state.

Henry Beveridge lived at Pitfold, Shottermill, Surrey, England and died in 1929.

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.

    • References

    Henry Beveridge Wikipedia
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