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- 3rd Mar 1909 (Creation)
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Henry Beveridge was born on 9th February 1837. He completed his education at Glasgow University and Queen's College, Belfast, before applying for the Indian Civil Service and he was posted to Bengal in 1857, serving in various posts until 1893. He married Annette Susanna Ackroyd, a graduate of Bedford College and translator of Persian and Turki text. Beveridge, himself, had many publications including The District of Bakarganj, The Trials of maharaja Nanda Kumar: A Narrative of a Judicial Murder and he was the editor for Alexander Rogers' TheThe Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī, or, Memoirs of Jahāngīr. They had two children, Annette Jeanie (d. 1956), and a son, William Beveridge (1879–1963), a noted economist who gave his name to the report associated with the foundation of the welfare state. Beveridge retired with his wife to England in 1893 but continued to be interested in Moghul history including returning to India in 1899 to search for historical manuscripts. He died on 8th November 1929.
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Letter from Henry Beveridge to Charlotte Hughes, Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society, in which he writes that he has now corrected the last galley proofs of Rogers' translation of the 12th year of the Memoirs of Jahāngīr to complete the first volume. He writes that the index is also nearly completed. He is also sending the 13th, 14th and part of the 15th years and will send more when he has received the type-written pages from Miss Pitherbridge. He writes that the translation need not go further than the 19th year. Beveridge also writes about some corrections that he has made to the translation. Handwritten letter with printed letterhead "Pitfold, Shottermill, Haslemere, R.S.O.", 2 pieces, 8 sides, dated 3 March 1909.
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- English