Claudius Buchanan

(1766-1815)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Buchanan, Claudius, 1766-1815 NRA: Buchanan, Claudius (1766-1815) Missionary in India DNB: Buchanan, Claudius (1766-1815), East India Company chaplain LBT ID: ClBucha1815 VIAF ID: 3253649 LOC ID: n85240579	B/BAP: 1766-03-12 DIED: 1815-02-09
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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 Claudius Buchanan: Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 12 July 1813 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ n1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ n1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1813