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CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN

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CLAUDIUS
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BUCHANAN  11766–1815),
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English divine, was
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born at
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Cambuslang, near
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Glasgow, and educated at the
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universities of Glasgow and
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Cambridge . He was ordained in 1795, and after holding a chaplaincy in
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India 'at
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Barrackpur (1797–1799) was appointed
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Calcutta
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chaplain and
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vice-
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principal of the
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college of Fort
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William . In this capacity he did much to advance
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Christianity and native
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education in India, especially by organizing systematic
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translations of the Scriptures . An
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account of his travels in the
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south and
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west of India, which added considerably to our knowledge of nature
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life, is given in his
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Christian Researches in
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Asia (Cambridge, 181 I) . After his return to
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England in 18o8, he still took an active
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part in matters connected with India, and by his
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book entitled Colonial Ecclesiastical
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Establishment (
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London, 1813), he assisted in settling the controversy of 1813, which ended in the establishment of the
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Indian episcopate .

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