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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), was established, according to its Royal Charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the Society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level. [1]

77 relations: Adrian David Hugh Bivar, Anthony Stockwell, Asia, Asiatic Society of Japan, Aurel Stein, Basil William Robinson, Beijing, Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton, Brian Houghton Hodgson, British Empire, C. M. Whish, Cambridge University Press, Charles Fraser Beckingham, Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850), Charles, Prince of Wales, Cyril Philips, David Samuel Margoliouth, Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay, Edward Douglas MacLagan, Ethiopia, Fellows of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Henry Skrine, Francis Robinson, George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster, George IV of the United Kingdom, Gerard Clauson, Giorgi Tsereteli, Gordon Johnson (historian), Harold Walter Bailey, Henry Bartle Frere, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Horace Hayman Wilson, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, Learned society, Madras Literary Society, Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey, North Africa, Oriental Club, Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford, Rabindranath Tagore, Ralph Lilley Turner, Reinhold Rost, Richard Olaf Winstedt, ..., Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough, Royal Asiatic Society China, Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal charter, Royal Holloway, University of London, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Sanskrit, Sarah Ansari, Shanghai, Sir Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Suez, Suzhou, The Asiatic Society, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Thomas Francis Wade, United Kingdom, Wilfred Thesiger, William Henry Sykes, William Jones (philologist), William Muir, William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey, World War II. Expand index (27 more) »

Adrian David Hugh Bivar

Adrian David Hugh Bivar (abbreviated A.D.H. Bivar) (1926 - 2015) was an Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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Anthony Stockwell

Professor Anthony John "Tony" Stockwell is a British academic.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Asiatic Society of Japan

The is a society of Japanese studies (Japanology).

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Aurel Stein

Sir Marc Aurel Stein, KCIE, FRAS, FBA (Stein Márk Aurél; 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia.

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Basil William Robinson

Basil William Robinson (20 June 1912 – 29 December 2005) was a British art scholar and author, specializing in Asian art and history.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton

Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton (William Bingham Baring; June 1799 – 23 March 1864) was a British businessman and a Whig politician who later became a Tory.

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Brian Houghton Hodgson

Brian Houghton Hodgson (1 February 1800 or more likely 1801 – 23 May 1894) was a pioneer naturalist and ethnologist working in India and Nepal where he was a British Resident.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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C. M. Whish

Charles Matthew Whish (1794–1833) was an English civil servant in the Madras Establishment of the East India Company.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Charles Fraser Beckingham

Charles Fraser Beckingham, FBA (born in Houghton, Huntingdonshire on 18 February 1914 - died Lewes, East Sussex on 30 September 1998) was a professor of Islamic Studies at Manchester University (1958–65) and London University (1965-81).

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Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850)

Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn PC (9 October 1775 – 2 September 1850) was a British politician of the early- to mid-19th century.

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Charles, Prince of Wales

Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Cyril Philips

Sir Cyril Henry Philips (27 December 1912 Worcester – 29 December 2005 Swanage, Dorset), knighted in 1974, was a noted historian and academic director.

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David Samuel Margoliouth

David Samuel Margoliouth, FBA (17 October 1858, London – 22 March 1940, London) was an orientalist.

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Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay

Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay (22 December 1839 – 1 August 1921) (in the Netherlands: Donald Jacob, Baron Mackay, Lord of Ophemert and Zennewijnen) was a Dutch-born British administrator and Liberal politician.

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Edward Douglas MacLagan

Sir Edward Douglas Maclagan KCSI KCIE (25 August 1864 –22 October 1952) was an administrator in British India.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Fellows of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland are the individuals who have been elected by the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science literature and the arts in relation to Asia".

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Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere

Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere KG, PC (1 January 1800 – 18 February 1857), known as Lord Francis Leveson-Gower until 1833, was a British politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts.

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Francis Henry Skrine

Francis Henry Bennett Skrine (1847–1933) was an English traveller, orientalist and official in British India.

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Francis Robinson

Francis Christopher Rowland Robinson CBE, DL (born 23 November 1944 in Barnet) is a British historian and academic who specialises in the history of South Asia and Islam.

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George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland

George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, (25 August 1784 – 1 January 1849) was an English Whig politician and colonial administrator.

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George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster

George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster (29 January 179420 March 1842), was an English peer and soldier.

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George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover following the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten years later.

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Gerard Clauson

Sir Gerard Leslie Makins Clauson (28 April 1891 – 1 May 1974) was an English civil servant, businessman, and Orientalist best known for his studies of the Turkic languages.

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Giorgi Tsereteli

Giorgi (George) V. Tsereteli FRAS (alternately transliterated as Cereteli) (გიორგი წერეთელი in Georgian. October 8, 1904 – September 9, 1973) was a Georgian scientist and public benefactor, founder of the well-known Georgian scientific school of Oriental Studies and Arabist of world renown, founder of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), founder and first Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS), Academician of GNAS, Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor.

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Gordon Johnson (historian)

Dr Gordon Johnson (born 13 September 1943) is a British historian of colonial India.

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Harold Walter Bailey

Sir Harold Walter Bailey, FBA (16 December 1899 – 11 January 1996), who published as H. W. Bailey, was an eminent English scholar of Khotanese, Sanskrit, and the comparative study of Iranian languages.

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Henry Bartle Frere

Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet (29 March 1815 – 29 May 1884) was a British colonial administrator.

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Henry Thomas Colebrooke

Henry Thomas Colebrooke FRS FRSE (15 June 1765 – 10 March 1837) was an English orientalist and mathematician.

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Horace Hayman Wilson

Horace Hayman Wilson (26 September 1786 – 8 May 1860) was an English orientalist.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

The Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (commonly abbreviated as JMBRAS) is a scholarly journal published by the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society or MBRAS.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society is an academic journal which publishes articles on the history, archaeology, literature, language, religion and art of South Asia, the Middle East (together with North Africa and Ethiopia), Central Asia, East Asia and South-East Asia.

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Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland

Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, (11 June 1876 – 6 February 1961), styled Lord Dundas until 1892 and Earl of Ronaldshay between 1892 and 1929, was a British Conservative politician.

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Learned society

A learned society (also known as a learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organisation that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts.

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Madras Literary Society

The Madras Literary Society is a learned society in Chennai (earlier called Madras), India which was founded in 1817 and in 1830 it became associated with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

The Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS) is a learned society based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey

William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey (15 February 1872 – 1 June 1969), known as Sir Malcolm Hailey between 1921 and 1936, was a British peer and administrator in British India.

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North Africa

North Africa is a collective term for a group of Mediterranean countries and territories situated in the northern-most region of the African continent.

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Oriental Club

The Oriental Club in London is a Gentlemen's club established in 1824 that now admits ladies (since 2010).

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Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford

Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford (26 November 1825 – 9 January 1869) was a British nobleman and man of letters.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Ralph Lilley Turner

Sir Ralph Lilley Turner MC (5 October 1888 – 22 April 1983) was an English Indian languages philologist and university administrator.

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Reinhold Rost

Reinhold Rost (1822–1896) was a German orientalist, who worked for most of his life at St Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury in England and as headlibrarian at the India Office Library, London.

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Richard Olaf Winstedt

Sir Richard Olaf Winstedt (2 August 1878 – 2 June 1966), or more commonly R. O. Winstedt, was an English Orientalist and colonial administrator with expertise in British Malaya.

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Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough

Lawrence Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarborough, KG GCSI GCIE GCVO TD GCC PC DL (27 July 1896 – 29 June 1969) was a British Conservative statesman and British Army general.

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Royal Asiatic Society China

The Royal Asiatic Society China is a learned society based in Shanghai and Beijing, China.

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Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch

Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch was founded in 1847, but ceased to exist at the end of 1859.

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Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch

The Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch is a learned society based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka

The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Royal Astronomical Society

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research (mainly carried on at the time by 'gentleman astronomers' rather than professionals).

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.

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Royal Holloway, University of London

Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Royal Society for Asian Affairs

The Royal Society for Asian Affairs is a learned society based in London (United Kingdom) that was founded in 1901 as the Central Asian Society to "promote greater knowledge and understanding of Central Asia and surrounding countries".

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Sarah Ansari

Sarah Frances Deborah Ansari is a British professor of history at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Shanghai

Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.

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Sir Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet

Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet (19 August 1813 – 11 January 1890), who was known as Sir Edward Colebrooke,Binns, p.xv.

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Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology.

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Suez

Suez (السويس; Egyptian Arabic) is a seaport city (population ca. 497,000) in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez (a branch of the Red Sea), near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as Suez governorate.

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Suzhou

Suzhou (Wu Chinese), formerly romanized as Soochow, is a major city located in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, about northwest of Shanghai.

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The Asiatic Society

The Asiatic Society was founded by civil servant Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Sir William Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research.

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The Asiatic Society of Mumbai

The Asiatic Society of Mumbai (formerly Asiatic Society of Bombay) is a learned society in the field of Asian studies based in Mumbai, India.

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Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook

Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, (22 January 1826 – 15 November 1904) was a British Liberal statesman.

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Thomas Francis Wade

Sir Thomas Francis Wade (25August 181831July 1895), was a British diplomat and sinologist who produced an early Chinese textbook in English, in 1867, that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Wilfred Thesiger

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003),https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2003/aug/27/booksobituaries.obituaries also called Mubarak bin London (Arabic for "the blessed one of London") was an English explorer and travel writer.

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William Henry Sykes

Colonel William Henry Sykes, FRS (25 January 1790 – 16 June 1872) was an English naturalist who served with the British military in India and was specifically known for his work with the Indian Army as a politician, Indologist and ornithologist.

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William Jones (philologist)

Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages.

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William Muir

Sir William Muir, KCSI (27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905) was a Scottish Orientalist, scholar of Islam, and colonial administrator, serving as Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Provinces of India.

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William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey

William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey (24 July 1783 – 11 May 1843) was an Irish statesman.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

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