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 Europe, 1850 : attended lectures of Weber at Berlin, and Roth at Tubingen : Professor of Sanskrit at Yale, 1854 : also of Comparative Philology from 1870 : Librarian, 1855–73. Secretary, 1857–84, President from 1884, of the American Oriental Society : published Sanskrit works and translations : was head of the school of Vedic Studies in the U.S. : edited the Atharva Veda : wrote on Language and the Study of Language, Oriental and Linguistic Studies : wrote on numerous Oriental subjects : contributed to Roth's and Bohtlingk's Sanskrit Dictionary : published his Sanskrit Grammar, 1879, a standard work : wrote in the American Journal of Philology and other Periodicals : was editor in chief of the Century Dictionary : received many honorary degrees, and was correspondent of foreign Academies : first President, in 1869, of the American Philological Association : was opposed to the native system of Sanskrit grammar : died June 7, 1894.

WHITTINGHAM, SIR SAMUEL FORD (1772–1841)

Son of William Whittingham : born Jan. 29, 1772 : joined a commercial house at Bristol : joined the Army, 1803 : studied at the Military College at High Wycombe : sent by Pitt on a secret mission to the Peninsula, 1804 : served at Buenos Ayres : D.A.Q.M.G. under Wellesley in Spain, in the Spanish Army : commanded Spanish Cavalry : severely wounded at Talavera : C.B. : and knighted, 1815 : Lieutenant-Governor of Dominica, 1820–1 : K.C.H. : Q.M.G. in India, 1821–5 : dealt with the Burmese war and the Barrackpur mutiny : at the siege of Bhartpur, 1825–6 : K.C.B. : commanded the Cawnpur and Meerut Divisions : Military Secretary to Lord W. Bentinck, 1833–5 : commanded in the Windward and Leeward Islands, 1836–9 : Lt-General, 1838 : C. in C. at Madras, Aug. I, 1840 : died Jan. 19, 1841.

WILAYAT ALI, NAWAB SYAD, KHAN BAHADUR (1815–1899)

Born 1815, at Patna : trained by his grandfather, Mir AbduUa, in his banking business and, at 15-16, was sent to Muzaffarpur to learn business under his uncle : became acquainted with many Government officers : in the mutiny, helped "William Tayler, then Commissioner of Patna, to check the spread of the rebellion in Bihar : received H.R.H. the Prince of Wales' personal thanks for his good services to the empire : made C.I.E., Jan. 1878 : and Nawab in April, 1882 : died June 3, 1899.

WILDE, SIR ALFRED THOMAS (1819–1878)

Son of Edward Archer Wilde : born Nov. I, 1819 : educated at Winchester : entered the E. I. Co.'s Madras N.I. in 1839 : served in the disturbances of 1843, on the Malabar coast : engaged on the Panjab frontier, in a Panjab regiment, against the Waziris in 1853–4; against the Bozdar Beluchis in 1857 : in the mutiny was at the sieges of Delhi and Lucknow, leading storming parties at both, and was in other engagements : C.B. : commanded the 4th Panjab N.L in the Mahsud-Waziri expedition of 1860 : in command of the Guides in the Umbeyla campaign, 1863 : A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : commanded the Panjab Frontier Force : C.S.I., 1866, : in 1868 commanded the Hazara Field Force in the Black Mountain expedition : K.C.B. : and Maj-General in 1869 : Military Secretary to the Government of Madras, 1869–70 : retired in 1871 : Member of the Council of India, 1877 : Lt-General : died Feb. 7. 1878.

WILKINS, SIR CHARLES (1749 or 1750–1836)

I.C.S. : Orientalist : born in 1749 or 1750 : son of Walter Wilkins : to Bengal as a writer in the E. I. Co.'s service in 1770 : the first Englishman to acquire a thorough knowledge of Sanskrit : published a grammar of it in 1779 : translated the Bhagavadgita, under Warren Hastings' patronage, in 1785 : deciphered Sanskrit inscriptions : himself prepared the first Bengali and Persian types : set up a printing-press for Oriental languages : helped Sir W. Jones to found the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1784 : established the Asiatic Researches : returned to England in 1786 : published translations of the Hitopadesa, or Fables of Pilpai, and of Sakuntala : in 1800 was made Custodian of the Oriental MSS. received from Seringapatam, and first Librarian of the India House Library : was, in 1806, appointed visitor of Haileybury and Addiscombe in the Oriental Department. In 1808 he produced another Sanskrit grammar :