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 Scriptures into Bengali : and part of the Old and New Testaments into Sanskrit, and the poetical portions, including the Book of Job, from the Hebrew into Sanskrit verse : also many tracts and hymns into Bengali or Sanskrit : died at Calcutta, Aug. 20, 1880.

WENLOCK, BEILBY LAWLEY, SECOND BARON, (1849–)

Born May 12, 1849 : educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge : succeeded his father, 1880 : M.P. for Chester, 1880 : Governor of Madras, 1891–6 : paid speeial attention to great public works and famine-relief : K.C.B. : G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. : P.C. : Lord of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales since 1901.

WEST, SIR EDWARD (1782–1828)

Son of Balchen West : born 1782 : educated at University College, Oxford : Fellow : called to the bar from the Inner Temple, 1814 : Recorder of Bombay : knighted, 1822 : Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bombay, 1823 : died at Bombay, Aug. 1828 : wrote treatises on Political Economy.

WEST, E. W. (1824–1905)

Civil Engineer in the Bombay Presidency, 1844–66 : interested in the inscriptions on Buddhist Cave Temples, he studied Pali : made a glossary of the words in the Maha Vamsa of Ceylon in Pali : published, in the Bombay R.A.S. Journal,, facsimiles of certain inscriptions : studied at Munich with Professor Haug, 1866–9, the records of the Zoroastrian religion in the Avesta and Pahlavi dialects of Persia : published old Persian texts : and translated, 1880–7, five Pahlavi books for the series of Sacred Books of the East : became the most eminent of Pahlavi scholars, and the greatest living authority on Pahlavi literature—on which he published a book, and many articles in the R.A.S. Journals— and the history of the Zoroastrian faith : began a catalogue of the Zend and Pahlavi MSS. at the India Office : Gold Medallist of the R.A.S., July, 1900 : Hon. D.Phil, of Munich, and member of American and Bavarian learned Societies : died Jan, 1905.

WEST, SIR RAYMOND (1832–)

I.C.S. : son of Frederick West : educated at Queen's University, Galway : went out to Bombay, 1856 : in the mutiny in the S. Mahratta country : Under Secretary to Bombay Government, 1862 : Registrar of the High Court, 1863 : Judge of Canara, 1866 : Judicial Commissioner in Sind, 1868, and 1872 : called to the Irish bar, 1871 : Judge of the High Court, Bombay, 1873–87 : Member of the Indian Law Commission, 1879 : on special duty in Egypt, to reform the judicial administration, 1885 : Vice-Chancellor of the Bombay University, 1886 : Member of Council, Bombay, Nov. 1887 to April, 1892 : K.C.I.E., 1888 : LL.D., Edinburgh : President of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society : Vice-President of the R.A.S. : edited the Bombay Regulations and Acts, and wrote on Hindu Law : Reader in Indian Law, Cambridge.

WESTCOTT, FOSS ( ? - ? )

In the E. I. Co.'s Service on the Madras establishment, 1741–56 : Ninth in Council : Storekeeker and Scavenger at Fort St. George, Madras, 1748 : one of the three Commissioners appointed in 1749 to receive back the Fort from the French, the other two being Stringer Lawrence (q.v.). Mayor of Fort St. David, and Alexander Wynch (q.v.), afterwards Governor of Madras.

WESTERGAARD, NIEL LUDWIG (1815–1878)

Danish Oriental scholar : published, 1841, his Radices Lingua Sanskrita, a work of great research : studied Sayana's Commentary on the Rigveda and other Vedic works : wrote the Verbal Dictionary : travelled from 1841 for 3 years in the East, in Persist and India, to search for Zend MSS. and copy the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis, etc. : published the results in the Journal of the Northern Society of Antiquaries at Copenhagen : also his Zendavesta, 1852 : elected, 1848, Deputy to the Constituent Assembly in Denmark, and appointed its Secretary.

WESTLAND, SIR JAMES (1842–1903)

I.C.S. : born Nov. 14, 1842 : son of James Westland : educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and Wimbledon : arrived in Bengal, 1862 : was in 1870 Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Financial Department, and filled a succession of offices in the financial<section end="Westland, Sir James" />