Henry Thomas Colebrooke

(1765-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Colebrooke, H. T. (Henry Thomas), 1765-1837 NRA: Colebrooke Henry Thomas (1765-1837) Sanskrit Scholar DNB: Colebrooke, Henry Thomas (1765–1837), administrator in India and scholar LBT ID: HeColeb1837 VIAF ID: 54146002 LOC ID: n84800740	B/BAP: 1765-06-15 DIED: 1837-03-10
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The son of Sir George Colebrooke, second baronet. In the service of the East India Company from 1782 he became a Hindu scholar and professor at Fort William; upon his return to London in 1814 he was director of the Royal Asiatic Society.
REFERENCES TO Henry Thomas Colebrooke: Sir James Mackintosh to John Whishaw, 13 August 1811 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ n1 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XXI. Found 1: ¶ 56 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIII: 1806-40 Found 1: ¶ n1