Edwin Norris

(1795-1872)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Norris, Edwin, 1795-1872 NRA: Norris, Edwin (1795-1872) Orientalist and Cornish Scholar DNB: Norris, Edwin (1795–1872), linguist and Assyriologist LBT ID: EdNorri1872 VIAF ID: 12672182 LOC ID: n98037528	B/BAP: 1795-10-24 DIED: 1872-12-10
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
After working as a tutor and language teacher he was a junior clerk in the East India Company and assistant secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society.
REFERENCES TO Edwin Norris: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) VISCOUNT DILLON Found 1: ¶ 5