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FOUNDATION, BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOBLE
RICHARD, MARQUIS WELLESLEY, K. P. ON THE 4TH MAY, 1800
RICHARD, MARQUIS WELLESLEY, K. P. ON THE 4TH MAY, 1800
On the 31st August 1811, the College Council passed the following order:
“ With a view to ascertain whether the Students admitted to the College of Fort William, have acquired any, and what knowledge of the Asiatic languages at the College of Hertford, or else where, before their admission. Ordered, that in future when Students are admitted, the Professors, whose Classes they may join, make a special Report of the progress which each Student may appear to have made in the language taught in the Class; and that such Report be transmitted to the Secretary for the information of the College Council.”
“ With a view to ascertain whether the Students admitted to the College of Fort William, have acquired any, and what knowledge of the Asiatic languages at the College of Hertford, or else where, before their admission. Ordered, that in future when Students are admitted, the Professors, whose Classes they may join, make a special Report of the progress which each Student may appear to have made in the language taught in the Class; and that such Report be transmitted to the Secretary for the information of the College Council.”
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE THIRTEENTH PUBLIC DISPUTATIONS
IN THE ORIENTAL LANGUAGES, Held on the 20th June, 1814 FIRST.-PERSIAN. Position.-“ Persian Literature has been less cultivated in its native country than in India.” Respondent,........... Mr. A. Stirling First Opponent,......... Ensign Sleeman. Second Opponent, ........Ensign Bryce Third Opponent,.........Mr. H. Millett. 7: Moderator, .............M. Lumsden, LL. D. SECOND.-HINDOOSTANEE. Position. -" The Hindoostanee Language, from its various origin and composition, is calculated to be more copious than any other Language current in India.” Respondent, ............Mr. A. Stirling. First Opponent, ......... Ensign Bryce. Second Opponent, ........ Ensign Turner. Moderator,............ Capt. J. W. Taylor. THIRD.-BENGALEE. Position.-" The study of Sunskrit, by the learned natives of Bengal, has occasioned the Bengalee Language to be neglected.” Respondent, ............Mr. C. W. Smith. First Opponent, .........Mr. J. Master. Second Opponent,........ Mr. C. M. Duntze. Moderator,-i........... The Rev. W. Carey, DD. FOURTH.-ARABIC. Position.-" The Arabs appear to have studied with considerable success, the abstract sciences as taught in the schools of the ancient philosophers; and their systems of Logic and Rhetoric in the excellence of their technical arrangement, are superior to the best received systems of modern times.". Respondent, ........ Mr. A. Stirling. First Opponent,......... Ensign Sleewan. Second Opponent, ....... Ensign Turner. Moderator, .............M. Lumsden, LL. D. FIFTH.-SUNSKRIT. Position.- "The Greek systems of Philosophy are derived from the Hindoos.” Respondent, ............ Lieut. Fell. First Opponent, ........Mr. J. Master Second Opponent, ........ Ensign Moderator, ............. The Rev. W. Carey, DD. On Messrs, Sleeman, Bryce and Turner, I have also had the pleasure of bestowing degrees of honor in the three Languages of Arabic, Persian and Hindoostanee; Mr. Sļeeman stands first of the Military Students in Arabic, 1st in Persian, and 3d in Hindoostanee, Mr. Bryce stands 1st in Hindoostanee, 2d in Persian, and 3d in Arabic. Mr. Turner stands 2d in Arabic, 2d in Hindoostanee, and 3d in Persian. These three Gentlemen entered College in September, 1813, and their attainments in this short period are of so high a nature, as to throw the greatest lustre on the character of the Institution. - A fourth Gentleman, Cornet Jackson, entered with them in the lists of literary competition, and I should have hoped on this day to have seen his name enrolled amongst the worthies of the year, had not the fairest promise of his early study been plucked by the rude hand of destiny. On Messrs. Sleeman, Bryce and Turner, I have also had the pleasure of bestowing degrees of honor in the three Languages of Arabic, Persian and Hindoostanee; Mr. Sleeman stands first of the Military Students in Arabic, Įst in Persian, and 3d in Hindoostanee, Mr. Bryce stands 1st in Hindoostanee, 2d in Persian, and 3d in Arabic. Mr. Turner stands 2d in Arabic, 2d in Hindoostanee, and 3d in Persian. The other Students to whom Degrees of Honor have been awarded, are : Messrs. Cracklow,.......... Hindoostanee, McKenly, .......... Hindoostanee, Duntze, ............ Bengalee, Fell, ..............Sunskrit, Walker, ....... ... Sunskrit. Medals of Merit have been awarded to Messrs. Cracklow,...in.... Persian, Blundell, ....in... Persian, for the 4th Term 1813, Cavendish,.......: Bengalee, Molony, .......... Persian, Coulthard, ........Persian. Medals for writing the different Native Characters have been awarded to Mr. Cracklow for Persian Writing, Mr. Glass for Persian and Nagree, and Lieut, Isacke for Persian Writing. The Students who have been reported qualified for the Public Service by their proficiency in two Languages, are 1. A. Stirling,– First in Arabic,– First in Persian,--First in Hindoostanee. 2. H. Millett,-Second in Persian,-- First Class Arabic, Third in Hindoostanee, --Fourth in Bengalee. 3. C. W. Smith,-First in Bengalee,-Fourth in Hindoostanee, 4. J. Master, - First Class in Sunskrit, --Second in Bengalee,-Seventh in Persian. 5. A. H. Bosanquet,- Second in Hindoostanee,-Sixth in Persian. 6. H. Blundell, Third in Persian,- Seventh in Hindoostadee. 7. G. Martin --Fifth in Persian, -Ninth in Hindoostanee. 8. J. C. Dick,--Sixth in Hindoostanee,- Eighth in Persian: 9. A. Ogilvie,-Fifth in Hiodoostanee, -Twelfth io Bengalee. 10. J. V. Biscoe,-Seventh in Hindoostanee,-Eleventh in Bengalee, -Thirteenth in Persian. 11 E. Molony, -Fourth in Persian, Fitteenth in Hindoostanee. 12. R. P. Nisbet,-Seventh in Bengalee,-Eleventh in Hindoostanee. 13. W. Smith,- Ninth in Persian, -Tenth in Hindoostanee. 14. J. J. Bosanguet, - Ninth in Bengalee, - Thirteenth in Hindoostanee 15. H. Moore, Tenth in Bengalee,-Twelfth in Persian. 16. G. T. Collins, -Twelfth in Hindoostaldee,-Fourteenth in Bengalee. 17. R. W. Maxwell,- Eleventh in Persian,-Fifteenth in Bengalee,- Third Class Hindoostanee. 18. R. Lowther,- Thirteenth in Bengalee,-Seventeenth in Hindoostanee. A REPORT OF THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL EXAMINATION,
HOLDEN IN JUNE, 1814.
By Order of the Council of the College,
A. LOCKETT, Secretary AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOURTEENTH PUBLIC DISPUTATIONS IN THE ORIENTAL LANGUAGES,
Held on the 25th July, 1815 FIRST.-ARABIC. Position. "Whatever may be the difficulties of of Arabic Grammar, considered as a science, the knowledge of it, requisite for practical purposes, is not of more difficult attainment than that of the generality of European Languages.” Respondent, ..........Mr. W. H. Macnaghten, Opponent,............ Lieut. R. Taylor. Moderator,........... Major J. Weston. SECOND.-PERSIAN. Position.-" The knowledge of Persian to be derived from the study of its purest writers, the fr best introduction to the use of it in business, Of of other intercourse with the Natives of India.” Respondent, ..........Mr. W. H. Macnaghten. First Opponent,.... ...Lieut. R. Taylor, Second Ditto, ......... Lient. W. Isacke, Moderator, ............ Major J. Weston, THIRD.-HINDOOSTANEE. Position. "For a critical skill in the Hindoostanee, it is requisite that a knowledge of more Languages should be combined than are necessary, for a similar acquaintance with any other Language, ancient or modern" Respondent, ..........Mr. W. H. Macnaghten. First Opponent, ........ Lieut. W. Isacke. Second Ditto,.........Mr. A. Dick. Moderator, ........... Captain J. W. Taylor. FOURTH.-BENGALEE. Position.-" The Bengalee Language is not only well calculated for matters of business, but also is adapted to works of Literature and Science.”. Respondent, .......... Hon. R. Cavendish. First Opponent,........Mr. W. H. Macnaghten. Second Ditto, .........Mr. A. Murray. Moderator,........... Rev. Dr. Wm. Carey, DD. A Declamation in Sunskțit, by Mr. Macnaghten, on the following subject.- "It is more probable that the Sunskrit, as it now exists, is the mixture of several dialects, gradually formed into one Language, than that with its avowed copiousness and artificial structure, it so should be an aboriginal Tongue." The Civil Students who have been reported entitled to Degrees of Honor, for high proficiency in the past year, are Mr. William Hay Macnaghten, Mr. Abercromby Dick, The Honorable Richard Cavendish, and Mr. William Monckton. The Military Students, are Lieut. Taylor, of the Bombay Establishment, Lieut. Isacke, of the Madras Establishment, Lieut. Bagnold and Lieut. Beckett, of the Establishment of Bengal. In addition to the Students already specified, those to whom Medals of Merit have been awarded, either at the Public Examination held in December, or at the late Examination in June, are as follows: CIVIL STUDENTS. Cudbert Thornhill Glass, Persian and Hindoostanee. Benjamin Taylor,-Persian and Ilindoostanee. Robert Creighton,--Hindoostanee and Bengalee. . David Carmichael Smyth, --Persian and Hindoostadre. Nathaniel Smith,-Persian and Bengalee. Thos. Herbert Maddock,- Persian and Hindoostanie. Harry Nisbet,- Persian. David Dale,- Bengalee and Persian. Alex. Francis Lind,- Bengalee and Persian. George Ewan Law,-Hindoostanee. William Wilkinson,-Bengalee. Thomas Porter Bonell Biscoe,–Bengaleo. John Frederick Ellerton,- Bengalee. Charles Stuart,-- Bengalee. MILITARY STUDENTS. Lieut. Chas. Paton, -Hindoostanee and Bruj B'hak,ha, Lieut. Jas. Bedford,--Hindoostanee and Persian. Eosign Geo. Stalkart,-Hindoostanee and Persian. Cornet William Scott Kennedy,- Hindoostanee. Lieut. John Robson Wornum,- Bruj B'hak,ha. Ensign Jas. Glencairn Baros, --Bruj B'hak,ha. The following Civil Students have been declared qualified, by their proficiency in two or more Languages, to enter on the Public Service. 1. William Hay Macnaghten,- First in Arabic.- First in Persian.- First in Sunskrit.---Third io Beogalee.-- First in Hindoostanee, at the former Examination. 2. Abercromby Dick,- First in Hindoostanee.-Second in Persian. 3. The Hon. Richard Cavendish,- First in Bengalee.- Fourth in Persian. 4. William Monckton,- Second in Benglee.--Second in Sunskrit. -Twelfth in Persian. 5. Samuel Munckley Duntze,- Second in Bengalee, at the Examination of December last. He was prevented by severe illness from attending the late Examination, but has since been examined in Persian, and is stated by the Examiners to have performed his exercises in such a manner, as would have entitled him to be placed nearly at the top of the 3d Class. 6. Benj. Tayler,-Third in Persian.-Third in Hindoostanee. 7. Dav. Car. Smith,- Second in Hindoostanee. - Fifth in Persian. 8. Nath. Smyth,-Sixth in Persian.- Tenth in Bengalee, and in the 4th Class of Hindoostanee. 9. T. H. Maddock, --Seventh in Persian.-Fourth in Hindoostanee. 10. C. T. Glass,-Sixth in Hindoostanee.- Eighth in Persian, and in the 2d Class of Arabic. 11. David Dale, Fifth in Bengalee.— Tenth in Persian. 12. Harry Nisbet,- Ninth in Persian.-Ninth in Hindoostanee. 13. Arch. Murray,-Fourth in Bengalee.- Fifth in Persian. 14. Henry Walters,- Eighth in Hindoostanee.- Thirteenth in Persian. 15. R. J. Tayler,-Eleventh in Persian.-Thirteenth in Hindoostanee. 16. A. F. Lind,-- Eighth in Bengalee.-Sixteenth in Persian. 17. R. if. Boddam,- Seventh in Hindoostanee.--Seventeenth in Persian 18, R. A. Ward,- Eleventh in Hindoostanee.--Fourteenth in Persian. 19. R. Creighton,-Fifth in Hindoostanee.-Ninth in Bengalee, and—Twenty-first in Persian. I now most reluctantly perform the duty of proclaiming the names of the Students who have thus unhappily exposed themselves to the penalties of the Statute. They are Mr. William Woollen, Mr. William Lance, Mr. James Dewar, Mr. Wm. A. C. Plowden, and Mr. Robert Walker. A REPORT OF THE FIRST HALF-YEARLY EXAMINATION,
HOLDEN IN DECEMBER, 1814.
By order of the Council of the College,
T. ROEBUCK, Acting Secretary. A REPORT OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL EXAMINATION,
HOLDEN IN JUNE, 1815.
By order of the Council, of the College,
T. ROEBUCK, Acting Secretary. COLLEGE OF Fort William, 20th June, 1815. AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIFTEENTH PUBLIC DISPUTATIONS
IN THE ORIENTAL LANGUAGES, Held on the 15th July, 1816 FIRST.-HINDOOSTANEE. Position.-" The Satirical Poetry of the Hinodoostanee equals that of any other Oriental Language.” Respondent, ............Mr. W. A. Pringle. First Opponent, .........Mr. G. E. Law. Second Opponent,........Mr. A. Reid. Moderator, ............ Captain J. W. Taylor. SECOND.-BENGALEE. Position.-" The Bengalee Language is better suited to Historical, than to Poetical or Philosophical Composition.” Respondent, ............ Mr. T. Clerk. First Opponent,.........Mr. W. Wilkinson. . Second Opponent, .......Mr. T. G. Vibart. Moderator, ............ Rev. D.. W. Carey. THIRD. - PERSIAN. Position.-" The cause of the Persian Language having so long flourished, where it is not indigenous, arises from the encouragement it has met from the several Governments, which have successively ruled the Country.” Respondent, ............Mr. W. Wilkinson. First Opponent,.........Mr. W. A. Pringle. Second Opponent,........Mr. A. Reid. Moderator, ............Captain T. Roebuck. FOURTH.-SUNSKRIT. Position.--“To acquire a perfect knowledge of the Sunskrit Language requires a longer period of diligence and exertion, than to attain a similar degree of proficiency in any vernacular tongue.” Declamation by Mr. T. Clerk. I have dwelt thus long upon the advantage possessed by the present year, in respect to the number qualified, over any other year, with the results of which I have been made acquainted; because I conceive this circumstance alone to outweigh every other consideration, and to give a decided superiority to the result of this Examination. The twenty-five Students reported qualified by their proficiency in two Languages to enter the Public Service, are 1. Thomas Clerk. 2. Henry Harington Thomas. 3. William Wilkinson. 4. William Alexander Pringle. 5. Charles Stuart. 6. George Ewan Law. 7. Andrew Reid. 8. John Frederick Ellerton. 9. Henry Graham. 10. Charles Phillips. 11. Edward Sheffield Montagu. 12. Thomas Gowan Vibart. 13. Thomas Porter Bonel Biscoe. 14. Sir John Brooke Stonhouse. 13. Henry Meredith Parker. 16. Sir Thomas Pelham Hayes. 17. Honorable Henry Arthur Annesley. 18. John William Templer. 19. Richard Milbanke Tilghman. 20. Lane Magniac. 21. Michael Bruce. 22. Honorable William Rodney. 23. Walter Ritchie. 24. John Henry Barlow. 25. John Fleming Martin Reid. A twenty-sixth Student, Mr. Lindsay, in consequence of a disorder of the eye, which prevented him from prosecuting his studies, was permitted to quit College in February last, A twenty-seventh Student, Mr. Creighton, has also been permitted under particular circumstances to enter the Public Service, although not qualified in two Languages The Gentlemen who most distinguished themselves in this respect were Mr. Thomas Clerk, in the Persian, Bengalee and Sunskrit Languages. Mr. Henry Harington Thomas, in the Persian and Hindoostanee Languages. Mr. Henry Graham, in the Persian and Hindoostanee Languages. Mr. Charles Stuart, in the Persian Language. AND Mr. William Wilkinson, in the Persian Language. Messrs. Wyoch and Macnaghten were accordingly called, and received from bis Lordship their respective Degrees of Honor. A REPORT OF THE FIRST HALF-YEARLY EXAMINATION
Holden in December 1815
A REPORT OF THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXAMINATION,
HOLDEN IN JUNE, 1816.
By order of the Council, of the College,
T. ROEBUCK, Acting Secretary. COLLEGE OF Fort WILLIAM, 31st July, 1816. AN ACCOUNT OF THE SIXTEENTH PUBLIC DISPUTATIONS
IN THE ORIENTAL LANGUAGES, Held on the 30th June, 1817 FIRST.-PERSIAN. Position.-" The science of general or philosophical Grammar, is more successfully cultivated, and better understood, by the Eastern, than by the Western Grammarians," Respondent, .............Mr. W. Dundas. First Opponent, .......... Mr. F. Millett. Second Opponent, ........ Lieut. J. Macdonald, Moderator, .............Dr. M. Lumsden. SECOND.-HINDOOSTANEE Position.- " It is easier to diffuse the literature and science of the Western Nations among the Natives of India, by translating European Books into their own Tongue, than by instructing them in the European Languages.” Respondent, ............. Mr. F. Millett. First Opponent, ......... Mr. W. Dandas. Second Opponent, ........Mr. R. H. Scott. Moderator, ............. Capt. J. W. Taylor. THIRD.-BENGALEE. Position.-" The advantage of the Oriental me. 6 thod of conveying instruction by means of Parables or Tales, is peculiarly conspicuous in the Bengalee Language." Respondent, ............ Mr. T. Clarke. First Opponent, .........Mr. D. McFarlan. Second Opponent, ..........Mr. E. W. Cockerell. Moderator, ............. Revrd. Dr. W. Carey. The Gentlemen of the Civil Service to whom I have given Degrees of Honor are: Messrs. Dundas, Millett, MeFarlan, Robertson, for high proficiency in the Persian Language; and Messrs. Millett, Dundas, Scott, Robertson Reade, and McFarlan, for the same in the Hindoostanee Language. The 18 Gentlemen who have been reported qualified for the Public Service are: 1. William Dundas, 2. Frederick Millett, 3. David McFarlan, 4. William Tulloh Robertson, 5. John Thurlow Reade, 6. Richard Hastings Scott, 7. Edward William Cockerell, 8. William Dent, 9. William James Turquand, 10. Hugh Fraser, 11. Francis Macnaghten, 12. Henry Taylor, 13. George Powney Thompson, 14. Tbomas Ambrose Shaw, 15. James Wyatt, 16. John Dunsmore, 17. Thomas Monsell, 18. Edward Stirling and to these I am to add the name of Mr. Plowden, who, though not regularly re-admitted, has, as already observed, passed an examination and been declared qualified in two Languages. |
A REPORT OF THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL EXAMINATION,
HOLDEN IN JUNE 1817.
By Order of the Council of the College,
A. LOCKETT, Secretary, AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVENTEENTH PUBLIC DISPUTATIONS IN THE ORIENTAL LANGUAGES,
Held on the 15th August, 1818 FIRST.-HINDOOSTANEE. Position.-" The Hindoostanee Language is more adapted to eloquence than any other of the Oriental Languages.” Respondent,............ Mr. C. Fraser. First Opponent,......... Cornet Keighly. Second Opponent,........Mr. H. T. Owen. Moderator,............. Major J. W. Taylor, SECOND.-BENGALEE. Position.-" The Bengalee Language from its “ facility in the compounding of words, is one of “ the most expressive Languages of the East. Respondent................Mr. T. Clarke.* * Mr. Clarke was prevented from attending by illness, First Opponent,........ Mr. G. J. Morris. Second Opponent,........ Mr. H. S. Boulderson. Moderator,............ ... Rev. Dr. W. Carey. THIRD.--PERSIAN. Position." Persian Composition is more difficult of acquirement, than that of any other of the Oriental Languages.” Respondent,...............Mr. C. Fraser. First Opponent,............. Cornet Keighly. Second Opponent........... Mr. G. J. Morris. Moderator,................. Dr. M. Lumsden. DECLAMATION IN SUNSKRIT, By G. J. Morris. The following are the Gentlemen who have obtained Medals of Merit, for diligent application and rapidity of progress, in the last term. Mr. Fraser, for his progress in three Languages, Arabic, Persian and Hindoostanee. Mr. Morris, for Persian and Sanskrit. Messrs. Owen and Macan, for Persian and Hindoostance; and Mr. Boulderson, for Persian. Mr. Manning has received a Medal for the best specimen of Persian writing A REPORT OF THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL EXAMINATION,
HELD IN JUNE, 1818.
LIST OF STUDENTS NOW LEAVING COLLEGE, CLASSED IN THE ORDER OF RELATIVE GENERAL PROFICIENCY.
1. Fraser, First in Persian,-First in Hindoostanee, the only Student of Arabic this year,-Fourth in Bengalee. 2. Morris,-Second in Persian,- Second in Bengalee, the only Student of Sunskrit this year. 3. Clarke --First in Bengalee,-Fifth in Persian. 4. Owen,- Second in Hindoostanee,–Third in Persian. 5. Boulderson,-Third in Bengalee,-First in Persian. 6. Macan,-Fourth in Persian,-Fourth in Hindoostanee. 7. Floyer,-Sixth in Persian, Sixth in Hindoostanee. 8. Walker,-Seventh in Persian,-Eighth in Hindoostanee. 9. Campbell,-Sixth in Bengalee, -Tenth in Persian. 10. Cathcart,-Fifth in Bengalee,-Eleventh in Persian. 11. Oldfield,-Fifth in Hindoostanee, -Twelfth in Persian. 12. Woodward,-Eighth in Persian,-Eleventh in Hindoostanee. 13. Dewar,—Ninth in Hindoostanee,- Thirteenth in Persian. 14. Law,---Tenth in Hiodoostanee,-Fourteenth in Persian. By Order of the Council of the College, A. LOCKETT, Secretary. COLLEGE OF Fort WILLIAM 20th August, 1818. THE STATUTES OF THE COLLEGE FORT WILLIAM,
IN BENGAL, AT PRESENT IN FORCE. P. Pereira, Printer, Hindoostanee Press, Calcutta, THE Council of the College of Fort William, in compliance with directions from His Excellency LORD Moira, Visitor of the College, hereby promulgate the annexed Fourth Chapter of Statutes, enacted by the Right Honorable the Governor General in Council, on the date therein specified. J. H. HARINGTON, J. FOMBELLE, J. STUART COLLEGE OF FORT William, July 1st, 1814 More Statutes, see book, Fourth Chapter, page 5 of Appendix....... The Present Establishment of the College of Fort William;
containing a list of the Names and Designations of the College Council, the Officers, Examiners, Prosfessors, Native Teachers, &c. COUNCIL OF THE COLLEGE OF FORT WILLIAM. John Herbert Harington, Esq. President. John FENDALL, Esq. Member William Edward REE, Esq. Member. Captain ABRAHAM LOCKETT, Secretary to the Council of the College, and Public Examiner. Captain THOMAS ROEBUCK, Public Examiner. JAMES ATKINSON, Esq. Acting Examiner in Hindoostanee. PROFESSORS. Matthew LUMSDEN, LL. D. Professor of the Persian and Arabic Languages. Major John Weston, Assistant Professor of ditto ditto. Major John William Taylor, Professor of the Hindoostanee Language. Captain Thomas ROEBUCK, Acting Assistant Professor of ditto. The Reverend WILLIAM CAREY, D.D. Professor of the Bengalee and Sunskrit and Ţeacher of the Murhutta Language. Lieutenant WILLIAM PRICE, Assistant Professor of Bengalee and Sunskrit and Teacher of Bruj Bhasha. Present Native Establishment of the College of Fort William
PERSIAN AND ARABIC DEPARTMENTS, HEAD MOONSHEE, Muolu vee Kurum Hosuen, ........ May 1801. SECOND MOONSHEE Muoluvee Ubdoor, Ruheem..........Oct 1812 MOONSHEES Muoluvee Budur Ulee..................May 1801 Muoluvee Hoosuen Ulee..............ditto Tegh Ulee Sur-rishtudar..............ditto Muoluvee Hissam Ooddeen ........Nov 1806 Murza Noor Ulee.........................Oct 1801 Muoluvee Muola Bukhsh.............Sept 1802 Muoluvee Ubbas Ulee..................Feb 1804 Qoorban Ulee..............................Nov 1802 Nadir Ulee...................................Sept 1808 Gungar Bishan............................May 1801 Mirza Husan Ulee.........................Oct 1802 Muoluvee Sueyid Kazim Ulee.......April 1807 Muoluvee Furhut Ulee..................Aug 1808 Muoluvee Moohummad Ulee.........Dec 1811 Kulb Ulee Persian writing Master..Sept 1801 HINDOOSTANEE DEPARTMENT. HEAD MOONSHEE. Tarineechurun Mitr, ..................May 1801. SECOND MOONSHEE Meer Bukhshish Ulee,................ Nov. 1803. MOONSHEES. Muoluvee Moohummud Wajid, . . .Mar. 1802, Moortuza Khan, ...........................May 1801, Yoosoof Ulee, Sur-rishtudar,.........Sept. 1801, Muoluvee Ubdoossumud, .............Oct. 1801, Muoluvee Nuzr OOllah, .................April 1802, Muoluvee Wajib Ooddeen..............Nov 1808 Muoluvee Moohummad Wusee......Jan 1805 Muoluvee Bab Oollah.....................Sept 1801 Duleel Ooddeen.............................Oct 1801 Muoluvee Muhfooz Ulee.................Aug 1806 Muoluvee Meer Tusuddooq Hoosuen...Nov 1802 Muoluvee Buhadoor Ulee...............Dec 1807 Meer Munsoor Ulee........................Feb 1802 Meer Sueyid Ulee...........................July 1807 Muhanund Nagree writing Master.....Feb 1802 BENGALEE DEPARTMENT. HEAD PUNDIT. Ramunathu, Nyayu Vachuspúti, .......... May 1801. SECOND PUNDIT. Ramujuyu, Turkalunkar, .......................July 1816 PUNDITS Shreeputi Mook Hopadhyayu................May 1801 Kaleeprusad Turku Siddhantu...............Sept 1801 Pudmulochun Chooramuni....................May 1801 Shivu Chundru Turkalunkar...................Sept 1801 Ramukishoru Turkuchooramuni.............Nov 1805 Ramukoomaru Shiromuni.......................Sept 1801 Gudadhuru Turkubageeshu....................Nov 1805 Ramuchundru Rae..................................Mar 1803 Nurottumu Bos.......................................Mar 1806 Kaleekoomaru Rae, Bengalee writing Master & Sur-rishtudar..........................................Mar 1803 MURHUTTA DEPARTMENT. Vuedyunathu Pundit, ........................... Sept. 1807. BRUJ BHASHA DEPARTMENT. Shree Lal Kuvi, ....................................Feb. 1802, Indreshwur Pundit, . ............................Jan. 1815. HINDEE TRANSLATOR. Meer Buhadoor Ulee, formerly Head Moonshee of the Hindoostanee Department. . . ....Sept. 1901, WRITERS IN THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE. Mr. John Ward, .................................. Dec. 1814, Jugumohụp, Chuttopadhyayu, ...........Nov. 1802, Dataram Pakrasee...............................Sept 1801 Kaleechurun Ghoshal..........................Aug 1814 NATIVE LIBRARIANS Mohunprusad Thakoor.........................Oct 1807 Muoluvee Ikram Ulee............................Oct 1816 Moonshee Ghoolam Huedur.................Sept 1801 College of Fort William 1st June 1818 A General List of the Names and Offices of those Persons,
who have borne any part in the conduct of the Institution, since its foundation in 1800. COUNCIL OF THE COLLEGE. The Reverend David Brown, Provost,.... ....April 1801, - Claudius Buchanan, Vice Provost, ..... ........Ditto, The Honorable Henry Wellesley,........ .........Ditto Sir George Hilaro Barlow, Bart.....................Ditto Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Esq..................Ditto John Lumsden, Esq. ..................................Jan 1802 John Herbert Harington, Esq..... .................Mar. 1802, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq... ..............Ditto, John Fombelle, Esq....................................Jan. 1807, James Stuart, Esq..................................... Aug. 1810, Robert Ker, Esq..........................................Mar. 1817, John Fendall, Esq. .................................... Nov. 1817, William Edward Rees, Esq..........................May 1818. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECRETARIES AND ASSISTANT SECRETARIES TO THE COUNCIL OF THE COLLEGE. Charles Rothman, Esq. Secretary April, 1801. Dr. William Hunter, Secretary 1st November, 1805. Lieutenant William Macdougall, officiated as Secretary, May, 1807, during Dr. Hunter's absence an account of his health; appointed Assistant Secretary 14th July, 1807. Dr. John Leyden, succeeded Lieutenant Macdougall, as Assistant Secretary 28th Sept. 1807. Lieutenant (now Captain) Abraham Lockett, succeeded Dr. Leyden, as Assistant Secretary on the 22d February, 1808, and Dr. Hunter as Secretary on the 1st Nov. 1811. Lieutenant (now Captain) Archibald Galloway, acted as Secretary during the absence of Dr. Hunter, from 9th March, 1811, to 22d June, 1812; was appointed Assistant Secretary, 1st Nov. 1811. Lieutenant (now Captain) Thomas Roebuck, acted as Assistant Secretary during the absence of Lieutenant Lockett in Persia and Arabia, from 9th March, 1811, to the 22d June, 1812; on 11th July 1812 was appointed Assistant Secretary upon Captain Galloway's leaving the College; was afterwards appointed to officiate as Secretary, during the absence of Captain Lockett in Europe, viz. from 3d January, 1815, to 4th Oct. 1816; and lastly, officiated as Secretary from 8th January, 1817, to the 21st April, 1817, during Captain Lockett's absence at Ceylon. James Atkinson, Esq. officiated as Assistant Secretary from the 3d Jan. 1815 to 13th June, 1816. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFESSORS. Sir George Hilaro Barlow, Professor of the Laws and Regulations of the British Government in India, April 1801, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq. Professor of Hindoo Law, and of the Sunskrit Language,. . May 1801, John Herbert Harington, Esq. succeeded Sir G. H. Barlow, as Professor of the Laws and Regulations of the British Government in India, .... ...... May 1801, John Borthwick Gilchrist, Esq. LL. D. & F. R:S. E. Professor of the Hindoostanee Language,. . April 1801, Francis Gladwin, Esq. Professor of the Persian Language,........Ditto, * Although Captain Roebuck's appointment to the Office of Assistant Secretary was sanctioned by the Honorable Court of Directors on the 22d July 1814, yet on the 13th June, 1816, an order was received from them, dated 13th Sept, 1815, abolishing the office of Assistant Secretary, which had been originally established on the 14th July, 1807, Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Esq. Professor of the Persian Language, and Literature, ............ April 1801 Lieutenant (now Lieut. Colonel) John Baillie, Professor of the Arabic and Persian Languages, and of Moohummudan Law, ......... ........ ditto Reverend Claudius Buchanan, Professor of Greek and Latin Classics, ........................ Ditto, Matthew Lumsden, Esq. First Assistant Professor of the Persian Language in April 1801; acted as Professor from 28th Nov. 1805, until the 25th June 1807, when he succeeded Capt. Baillie, as Professor of the Persian and Arabic Languages, who was appointed Resident at Lucknow, Reverend William Carey, DD. Teacher of the Bengalee and Sunskrit Languages, April 1801; appointed Professor of the Bengalee and Sunskrit Languages on the 1st January, 1807, Reverend Mr. Poezold, Teacher of the Tamool Language, .................................. Mar. 1801, Dr. James Dinwiddie, LL. D. Teacher of Mathematics,.......April 1801, Monsieur Duplessy, Teacher of Modern Languages,.........April 1801, Edward Scott Waring, Esq. acted as Assistant Professor of the Hindoostanee Language from June 1801, to Jan 1802, Ensign William Macdougall, Assistant Professor of the Hindoostanee Language, ................ Nov. 1802, Captain (now Major) James Mouat, First Assistant Professor in the Hindoostanee Language, February 1803, and afterwards succeeded Dr. Gilchrist as Hindoostanee Professor, 1st January 1806, Captain (now Major) Charles Stewart, Second Assistant Professor in the Persian Language, March 1803, acted as 1st Assistant from 6th Feb. 1805, to February, 1806, Captain (now Major) John William Taylor, succeeded Major Mouat as Professor of the Hindoostanee Language on the 22d February, 1808, Captain (now Major) John Weston, was appointed Assistant Professor of the Persian and Arabic Languages on the 1st October, 1813; acted as Professor during Dr. Lumsden's absence at the Cape of Good Hope, from the 31st December, 1811, to 27th January, 1816; resigned his situation on the 2d July, 1818, to proceed with his Corps on service to Ceylon. Lieutenant William Price, was appointed Assistant Professor of the Bengalee and Sunskrit Languages on the 1st October, 1813. Lieutenant (now Captain) Russel Martin, was appointed Assistant Hindoostanee Professor on the 19th November, 1813; resigned his situation 230 December 1816, in order to return to Europe on account of his health. Lieutenant (now Captain) Samuel Coulthard, was appointed to officiate as Assistant Persian and Arabic Professor while Major Weston performed the duties of Professor, during Dr. Lumsden's absence, from the 31st Dec. 1814, to the 27th Jan. 1816. James Atkinson, Esq. officiated as Assistant Persian and Arabic Professor during Major Weston's absence at the Cape on account of his health, from 1st May 1816, to the 27th March, 1818. Captain Thomas Roebuck, was appointed in Dec. 1816 to officiate as Assistant Professor of the Hindoostanee Language, until the pleasure of the Honorable Court of Directors was known regarding his office of Assistant Secretary, which had been abolished by their orders, as noticed in page 53, q. v. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of the Gentlemen who have performed the duties of Examiners in the College of Fort William; shewing at the same time the Languages in which they have examined. REGULAR EXAMINERS. Sir George Hilaro Barlow, Bart. in Persian and Hindoostance,............... June 1801, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq. in Persian, Hindoostenee, Bengalee and Sunskrit,............ June 1801, John Herbert Harington, Esq. in Persian and Hindoostanee, ................ June 1801, Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Esq. in Persian and Hindoostanee,.....ditto William Coates Blaquiere, Esq. in Bengalee, ......ditto Dr. William Hunter, M. D. in Persian and Hindoostanee, ..................... Dec. 1801, Moohummud Nujm ood-deen Qazee ol Qozat, in Arabic, from 1801 to 1805. Muoluvee Umeer Huedur, in Arabic............. June 1801, Muoluvee Moohummud Moshurruf, in Arabic..... · Ditto, Mopftee Siraj ood-deen, in Arabic................Jan. 1805, OCCASIONAL EXAMINERS. Francis Gladwin, Esq. in Persian, ............... June 1801, Burrish Crisp, Esq. in Bengalee and Sunskrit,...... Ditto, Lieutenant Colonel David Thomas Richardson, in Persian and Hindoostanee, .................. Dec. 1801, John Lumsden, Esq. in Persian, ............... Ditto, Samuel Davis, Esq. Persian and Hindoostanee, .... Nov. 1801, Andrew Macklew, Esq. in Persian, ............. Ditto, Colonel Sir John Malcolm, late Envoy to the Court of Persia, in Persian, ...............July 1802, Dr. John Peter Wade, in Persian and Hindoostanee, July 1802. PUBLIC EXAMINERS. Lieutenant William Macdougall, in Hindoostanee and Persian, 31st Dec. 1806. The Rerd. Dr. William Carey has acted as Examiner in the Bengalee, Sunskrit, and Murhutta languages since the Establishment of the College. Matthew Lumsden, Esq. in Persian and Arabic, 31st Dec. 1806. Dr. William Hunter, in Hindoostanee, Persian and Arabic, succeeded M. Lumsden, Esq. as Public Examiner. July 1807, Dr. John Leyden, succeeded Lieutenant Macdougall, in Hindoostanee and Persian........ ........ Sept. 1807, Lieutenant (now Captain) Abraham Lockett, succeeded Dr. Leyden in Persian, Arabic and Hindoostanee.. .. Feb. 1808, Lieutenant (now Captain) Archibald Galloway, appointed on the 9th of March, 1811, to act as Public Examiner for Dr. Hunter, in Persian and Arabic. Lieutenant (now Captain) Thomas Roebuck, was appointed on the 9th of March, 1811, to act as Public Examiner for Lieutenant Lockett, who had gone with the permission of Government to Persia and Arabia ; Lieutenant Roebuck was afterwards permanently appointed as one of the Public Examiners on the 11th July 1812, upon the death of Dr. Hunter and the appointment of Lieutenant Galloway to another situation ; in Persian, Arabic, Hindoostanee and Bruj Bhasha. James Atkinson, Esq. acted as one of the Examiners, in Persian and Hindoostanee, during the absence of Captain Lockett in Europe, from the 3d January 1815 to October 1816; was appointed in Dec. 1816 to act as Examiner in the Hindoostanee language during the time that Captain Roebuck should continue to act as Assistant Hindoostanee Professor. An Alphabetical List of the Students, Civil and
Military, from the commencement of the Institution, to the 1st of June, 1818
MILITARY STUDENTS
Ayton, Ensign (now Lieut.), James Alexander Bagnold, Ensign (now Lieut.) John Henry Beckett, Lieut. John Ostlife Bedford, Ensign (now Lieut.) James Bryce,* Ensign (now Lieut.) David Burns, Ensign (now Lieut.) James Glencairn Dakin, Ensign Coulthard, + Lieut. (now Captain) Samuel Cracklow,Cadet (now Lieut.) Exshaw. Cadet (now Lieut.) John Fell, Lieut. Edward Grant, Ensign P. Warden Garden, Cadet (now Lieut.) William Gordon, Ensign (now Lieut.) George Hamilton, Lieut. J. Haughton, Ensign (now Lieut.) G. C. Hester, Cadet (now Cornet) WiIliam Chicheley Isacke, Lieut William (Madras Estabt.) Jackson, Cornet (Madras Estabt.) Johnston, Lieut Peter Kennedy, Cornet William Scott Keighly, Cornet (Madras Estabt) Lawrence, Ensign (now Lieut.) Henry Lucas, Lieut John Moore Adolphus Macdonald. Lieut. James (Madras Estabt.) McKenly, Cadet (now Lieut.) Moodie, Ensign (now Lieut.) Thomas Murray, Ensign (now Lieut.) William Neufville, Ensign (now Lieut.) John Bryan Orr, Lieut.Alexander Paterson, Cadet (now Lieut.) James Paton, Ensign (now Lieut.) Charles Reid. Ensign (new Lieut.) Henry Scott Ruddell, Lieut. David Robins, Lieut. James (Madras Estabt.) Scollay, Cornet (Madras Estabt.) Skrine, Ensign Thomas Martin Sleeman, Ensign (now Lieut) William Henry Stalkart, Ensign George * Lieutenant Bryce succeeded Major Weston, as Assistant Professor of the Persian and Arabic Languages, on the 7th August 1818. + On the 7th February 1815, Lieutenant Coulthard was appointed to act as Assistant Professor at the Persian and Arabic Lauguages Names Extracted from-
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