Alexander Hamilton ( 1762 - 1824 )

Birth: 1762 Death: Liverpool, Lancashire (30 December 1824) Career: In the service of the HEIC (East Inia Company), Bengal; continued to study Sanksrit at the British Museum; held hostage by the French (1803); at the request of the Langles Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts, Paris Library, he made an analytical catalogue of its Sanskrit manuscripts, which was translated and published by Langles (1807); Professor of Sanskrit and Hindu, Hailebury College Membership: Fellow Election Date: 14/01/1808.