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Born	August 13, 1783 • Islay • Scotland
Died	May 11, 1868 (aged 84) • London • England
Subjects Of Study	Malay language

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Kocheril Raman Narayanan

president of India

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton

British diplomat and poet

Sir John Hope Simpson

British administrator

al-Bīrūnī

Persian scholar and scientist

Sri Aurobindo

Indian philosopher and yogi

Amanda Smith

American religious leader

Meena Alexander

Indian poet and teacher

Lord Curzon

British foreign secretary

Clement Attlee

prime minister of United Kingdom

Lord William Bentinck

British government official

Shashi Tharoor

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Mirabehn

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Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier

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Edward VII

king of Great Britain and Ireland

John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence

British colonial official

Lord Ripon, oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1895; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Charles John Canning, Earl Canning

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Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten

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