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WHITLEY STOKES (1830-1909) , See also: British lawyer and See also: Celtic See also: scholar, was a son of See also: William Stokes (1804-1878), and a
See also: grand-son of Whitley Stokes (1763-1845), each of whom was regius professor of physic in the university of See also: Dublin
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In his See also: day, William Stokes, who was the author of several books on medical subjects, was one of the foremost physicians in See also: Europe
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Educated at Trinity See also: College, Dublin, See also: young Stokes became an See also: English See also: barrister in 1855, and in 1862 he went to See also: India, where he filled several official positions
.
In 1877 he was appointed legal member of the See also: viceroy's council, and he drafted the codes of See also: civil and criminal procedure and did much other valuable See also: work of the same nature
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In 1879 he was president of the commission on See also: Indian See also: law
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He returned to See also: England in 1882
.
In 1887 he was made a C.S.I., and two years later a C.I.E.; he obtained honorary degrees from many See also: universities, and was a See also: fellow of the British See also: Academy
.
He died in See also: London on the 13th of See also: April 19oo
.
Whitley Stokes is perhaps most famous as a Celtic scholar, and in this See also: field he worked both in India and in England
.
He studied Irish,
See also: Breton and Cornish texts, and among his numerous See also: works may be mentioned See also: editions of Three Irish Glossaries (1862); Three See also: Middle-Irish Homilies (1877); and Old Irish Glosses at Wiirzburg and Carlsruhe (1887)
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He was one of the editors of the Isische Texte published at See also: Leipzig (188o-'9oo); and he edited and translated Lives of See also: Saints from the See also: Book of See also: Lismore (1890)
.
With Professor A
.
Bezzenberger he wrote Urkeltischer Sprachschatz '(1894) . His See also: principal legal work was The Anglo-Indian Codes (1887)
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