Brian Houghton Hodgson
1800/1–94
Diplomat and Nepalese scholar. In the service of the East India Company from 1816; assistant resident in Nepal, 1820; resident, 1833–43. Acquired an important collection of Sanskrit and Tibetan manuscripts. Wrote extensively on the geography, ethnography, and natural history of India and the Himalayas. Lived in Darjeeling, 1845–58; thereafter settled in England. FRS 1877.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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