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Arthur Venis (4 October 1857 – 5 June 1918)[1] CIE was a British educator and Sanskrit scholar.[2] He was also a Member of the Legislative Council of the United Province.

Life

He was the second son of Edward John Lazarus M.D. of

Dacca as a "native doctor", later becoming a surgeon and moving to Benares.[5] An entry in the Middle Temple register for Maurice Dyte Venis indicates that by 1884 his father used the name Edward John Lazarus Venis.[6] On the other hand, Arthur's graduation at Balliol was as "Lazarus, A. V.".[7]

Arthur Venis studied at the University of Edinburgh.[1] He matriculated as a non-collegiate student at the University of Oxford in 1874, graduating B.A. in Balliol College, Oxford in 1878, and M.A. in 1885.[3]

Venis joined the Indian Educational Service in 1881,

Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi.[8]

In 1888, Venis became Principal of Queen's College, and in 1897, he received a

Allahabad University.[9][1]

Venis received the CIE in the 1911 Delhi Durbar Honours[9] and was a Member of the Legislative Council of the United Province.[10]

Works

Venis became a fellow of the

Nyāya texts.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Venis, Arthur". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 19 February 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Venis, Arthur – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen".
  3. ^
    Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
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  4. ^ "Venis, Maurice Dyte (VNS883MD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ISBN 978-0-85728-935-3
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  6. ^ Middle Temple (1949). 1782 to 1809. Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. p. 642.
  7. ^ Oxford, University of (1894). Oxford Honours, 1220-1894: Being an Alphabetical Register of Distinctions Conferred by the University of Oxford from the Earliest Times. Clarendon Press. p. 257.
  8. ISBN 9788120800274
    . Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  9. ^ a b Rao, C. Hayavadana (ed.). "Venis, Arthur" . The Indian Biographical Dictionary . Madras: Pillar & Co.
  10. ISBN 9781349123285
    . Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  11. JSTOR 25210300
    .
  12. JSTOR 2249396
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