East India Company chaplain; under the influence of the evangelical John Newton he traveled to India where he established a college and studied oriental languages.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Claudius Buchanan:

Colonial Ecclesiastical Establishment: being a Brief View of the State of the colonies of Great Britain, and of her Asiatic Empire, in respect to Religious Instruction, prefaced by some Considerations on the National Duty of affording it, to which is added a Sketch of an Ecclesiastical Establishment of British India.