Cecil Bendall
Cecil Bendall (1 July 1856 – 14 March 1906) was an English scholar, a professor of Sanskrit at University College London and later at the University of Cambridge. Bendall was educated at the City of London School and at the University of Cambridge, achieving first-class honours in the Classical Tripos in 1879 and the Indian Languages Tripos in 1881. He was elected to a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College.
Cecil Bendall
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- Born
- Cecil Bendall was born on 1 July 1856.
- Died
- Cecil Bendall died on 14 March 1906.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- librarian · photographer · archaeologist · linguist · indologist
- Languages
- English
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Cecil Bendall (1 July 1856 – 14 March 1906) was an English scholar, a professor of Sanskrit at University College London and later at the University of Cambridge. Bendall was educated at the City of London School and at the University of Cambridge, achieving first-class honours in the Classical Tripos in 1879 and the Indian Languages Tripos in 1881. He was elected to a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College.
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From 1882 to 1893 he worked at the British Museum in the department of Oriental Manuscripts (now part of the British Library). In 1894–1895 he was in Nepal and Northern India collecting oriental manuscripts for British Museum. During the winter 1898–1899 he returned to Nepal and together with pandit Hara Prasad Shastri and his assistant pandit Binodavihari Bhattacharya from the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, the team registered and collected information from palm-leaf manuscripts in the Durbar Library belonging to Rana Prime Minister Bir Shumsher J. Rana, and here he found the famous historical document Gopal Raj Vamshavali, describing Nepal's history from around 1000 to 1600. He was Professor of Sanskrit at University College London from 1895 to 1902, and at Cambridge from 1903 until his death. He was a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography.
The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with University College London, British Library and British Museum.
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