Education
He was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge, Haileybury and the College of Fort William, Calcutta, graduating from the last-named institution in 1844.
He was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge, Haileybury and the College of Fort William, Calcutta, graduating from the last-named institution in 1844.
He was part of the Orientalism movement and active within the British and Foreign Bible Society. He then worked for the East India Company, in Hoshiarpur and Ambala, in India. After returning to England he devoted himself to scientific research, philanthropy, and magisterial and municipal duties, declining reappointments in India.
He was member and officer in many scientific, philanthropic, and religious societies and a prolific writer
He retired in 1867, and began his linguistic writings. He was one of the few Victorian intellectuals to oppose the racist theories popular at the time.
In 1883 he wrote:
the vast majority of the educated public appears to have accepted at least some aspect of the new racial doctrine. He was the son of Honorary
They had four children.
There he filled in succession every office in the judicial and revenue departments, and was rapidly promoted until 1867, when he resigned and returned to England, after having been a member of the Viceroy"s Legislative Council and Home Secretary to the Government of India in 1864-1865.