Henry Miers Elliot
Sir Henry Miers Elliot KCB | |
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Born | Westminster, England | 1 March 1808
Died | 20 December 1853 | (aged 45)
Nationality | English |
Occupation | East India Company civil servant |
Sir Henry Miers Elliot
Early life and background
Elliot was born on 1 March 1808.
Career and family
Elliot was assistant successively to the
Early on, he conducted a magazine at
Elliot was married to the daughter of William Cowell a judge at the Provincial Court of Appeal, at Bareilly, Bengal, India. Failing health compelled him to seek a change of climate, and he died on 20 December 1853[2] on his way home at Simon's Town, Cape of Good Hope, aged 45.
Children of Sir Henry Miers Elliot KCB & Eliza Rebecca Cowell
- Eliza Amelia Elliot b. 19 Jan 1830
- Henry Lettsom Elliott b. 4 Jul 1831
- Fredrick Elrington Elliot b. 12 Apr 1836
- Richard James Elliot b. 17 Dec 1840
Legacy
His memorial exists at St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata.[2] There is a still-functioning Elliot club, now owned by the Government of Haryana at Hisar, founded by him for then East India Company officials, and O.P. Jindal Gyan Kendra knowledge currently stands on its land.[citation needed]
Elliot left behind him manuscript collections which were placed in the hands of competent scholars for publication. His historical researches bore fruit in
Works
The Sudder Board of Revenue of North-Western Provinces encouraged him to publish a glossary on terms in use throughout the region. The work included terms little covered and was heavily based on Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan Arzu's work Nawādir al-Alfāz. He completed the first volume of the work titled Supplement to the Glossary of Indian Terms, covering the alphabet from A to J. However, Elliot died before completing the second volume. A second edition was published in 1869 after being significantly enlarged and revised by John Beames. The edition was titled Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India: Being an Amplified Edition of the Original Supplemental Glossary of Indian Terms.[3]
Elliot's life-work, the Mohammedan historians of India, came out mostly in two well-known works. The first one was titled Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Muhammedan India and its first and only volume was published at Calcutta in 1849. His manuscripts were edited posthumously by
- Elliot, Henry Miers (1845). Supplemental Glossary of Indian Terms: A-J. Printed at the Secundra Orphan Press by N.H. Longden.
- Elliot, Henry Miers (1849). Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Muhammedan India. Vol. I (General Histories). Calcutta: Babtist Mission Press.
- Elliot, Henry Miers (1853). Appendix to the Arabs in Sind, Vol. III, Part 1, of the Historians of India. Cape Town.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period, The Posthumous Papers of the Late H. M. Elliot, edited by John Dowson; in 8 volumes (1867–77)[5]
- Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India: Being an Amplified Edition of the Original Supplemental Glossary of Indian Terms, edited by John Beames; in 2 volumes (1869)[6]
- Elliot, Henry Miers (1875). Wakiʼat-i Jahangiri. Lahore: Sheikh Mubarak Ali.
References
- ^ Huart, Cl., "Waṣṣāf", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936), Edited by M. Th. Houtsma, T.W. Arnold, R. Basset, R. Hartmann.
- ^ a b c d Wilson, Charles Robert (1896). List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Bengal. Calcutta. p. 3.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Walter Hakala. Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. Columbia University Press.
- JSTOR 593704.
- ISBN 9780521875752.
- ISBN 9781351867177.
Sources
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Elliot, Henry Miers". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Further reading
- Penner, Peter. "Elliot, Sir Henry Miers". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8663. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Wahi, Tripta (1990). "Henry Miers Elliot: A Reappraisal". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 122 (1): 64–90. S2CID 162117838. (subscription required)
External links
- Memorial to Henry Miers Elliot at St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- "Works by "Elliot, Henry Miers, Sir, 1808-1853".
- "Monument of Henry Miers Elliot at St Pauls Cathedral, Calcutta". British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2013.