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An English Orientalist and diplomatist; born in Berkshire in 1814; died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, July 16, 1883. He was a voluminous writer on Oriental (especially East-Indian) subjects, and has rendered very important service to English literature by many translations from Persian and Hindu: e. g., Sadi's "Gulistan" or "The Rose Garden" in 1852, and the version of Pilpay's fables called "Anvar-i-Suhaili" in 1854. He also wrote a "Journal of a Diplomat's Three-Years' Residence in Persia" (2 vols., 1864), and "Venezuela", or "Sketches of Life in a South-American Republic" (1868). Between 1878 and 1882 he brought out a sumptuous 2-vol. edition of the "Kaisar-nama-i-hind", or "Lay of the Empress". He was a frequent contributor to literary journals.