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Art. I.—Notices of the Life of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq., by his Son

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Henry Thomas Colebrooke, the subject of this memoir, was born in London, on the 15th. June, 1765, and was the youngest of seven children. His father, Sir George Colebrooke, Baronet, was for many years chairman of the East India Company.

As a boy, he was of a quiet retired disposition, seldom mixing in any of the usual amusements of childhood, and was distinguished at an early age among his brothers and sisters for his extreme fondness for reading. In allusion to this, he used to say to them, that by his habits and tastes he was best fitted for the profession of a clergyman, and expressed a strong desire to his father that he might be placed in the church.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , January 1838 , pp. 1 - 60
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1987

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page 2 note 1 Hindustani.

page 4 note 1 About 80l.

page 11 note 1 Mr. Patterson's report carries an interest with it as being that from which Mr. Burke, in his opening speech upon the impeachment of Warren Hastings, drew the substance of a series of painful details and descriptions which created the most powerful effect upon the minds of his auditory. “In this part of his speech,” says the compiler of the history of the trial, “Mr. Burke's descriptions were more vivid—more harrowing—and more horrific than human utterance, on either fact or fancy, perhaps, ever formed before. The agitation of most people was very apparent, and Mrs. Sheridan was so overpowered that she fainted.”

It may be right to mention that Burke enters into some details on the manner in which the Government and the Commission appointed to investigate Mr. Patterson's charges treated him, in order to show that he was an ill-used man.

page 24 note 1 The Remarks on the Husbandry and Commerce of Bengal.

page 38 note 1 It was never indulged.

page 42 note 1 These observations on Mr. Colebrooke's Essays on the Védas and the Jains, and the notice of his controversy with Mr. Bentley, are from the pen of Professor Wilson.

page 45 note 1 In the same way on two other oceasions his mind was turned to a course of reading not familiar to him. On his voyage to India he exhausted his own stock of books, and he took to the surgeon's, and read them through also. I forget the other occasion. It was medicine again.

page 50 note 1 I speak from the recollection of many years, but I think he said that it had cost him, from first to last, about 10,000l.