Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Horace Hayman Wilson NPG 826

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Atkinson

In 1808, appointed as Assistant Surgeon to the East India Company. Whilst in Calcutta he devoted his attention to the study of Indian languages, especially Sanskrit, and in 1811 became the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, upon the recommendation of the distinguished Sanskrit scholar Henry Colebrooke. He published a number of papers in its journal, Asiatic Researches. In 1832, Wilson left India as he was appointed the first Professorship in Sanskrit at Oxford University. Four years later he became Librarian at East... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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