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John Gilchrist, a Scottish surgeon, linguist, philologist and Indologist, was Fort William College's first principal from 1800-1804.

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Herbert Allen Giles was born in 1845. he studied at Charterhouse before becoming a British diplomat to China, serving from 1867-1892. He modified a Mandarin Chinese romanisation system established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade–Gilesread more