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List of biographical dictionaries
This fryst vatten an incomplete list of biographical dictionaries.
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[edit]- A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers
- Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890
- Akyeampong, Emmanuel and Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., eds. Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford, 2012)
- Amit, Vered, Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
- Anderson, Gerald with Robert Coote, eds, Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. ISBN 0-8028-4680-7. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8.
- Anderson, bekräftelse, Psychics, Sensitives, and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies, Jefferson / London: McFarland, 2006. ISBN 0-7864-2770-1.
- Arestis & Sawyer, A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists.
- Baker, Theodore & Alfred Remy, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
- Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.
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Dictionary of Indian Biography
Account of the Mutinies in Oudh, An, M. R. Gubbins: 1858.Addiscombe: its Heroes and Men of Note, Col. H. M. Vibart: 1894.
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographic: 1875.
American, European and Oriental Literary Record, Trüibner's: 1865-89.
Annual Register, The.
Asiatic Annual Register for the years 1800-1811, The: 1801-12.
Asiatic Quarterly Review, The: 1886-1905.
Asiatic Society, Journals of the Royal.
Assam, A Statistical Account of, W. W. Hunter: 1879.
Bengal Army, History of the Rise and Progress of the, Capt. A. Broome: 1850.
Bengal Artillery, List of Officers who have served in the Regiment of the, by Maj.-General F. W. Stubbs: 1892.
———————Memoir of the Services of the, Capt. E. Buckle: edited by J. W. Kaye: 1852.
Bengal, A Statistical Account of, W. W. Hunter: 1875-7.
Bengal Civil Servants, 1780-1838, Dodwell and Miles: 1839.
Bengal Establishment, A General Register of the Honourable E. I. Company
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Orme, Robert
ORME, ROBERT (1728–1801), historian of India, born on Christmas day 1728 at Anjengo, Travancore State, India, was the second son of Alexander Orme, physician and surgeon in the service of the East India Company, and chief of the settlement at Anjengo (Memoir; some accounts erroneously give his father's christian name as John or Robert). His mother's maiden name was Hill. He was sent when about two years old to the house of his aunt, Mrs. Robert Adams, in Cavendish Square, London. From about 1734 to 1741 he was educated at Harrow School under Dr. James Cox (Hist. of the College of Winchester, &c., 1816, ‘Harrow,’ p. 33), and was then placed for a year in the office of the accountant-general of the African Company. In 1742 he went to Calcutta, where his elder brother William was a ‘writer’ in the East India Company. Orme engaged himself in the mercantile house of Jackson & Wedderburn at Calcutta, and made