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MARSDEN, WILLIAM (1754-1836)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 766 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MARSDEN, WILLIAM (1754-1836) ,
English
  orientalist, the son of a Dublin merchant, was born at Verval, Co.
Wicklow
  on the 16th of November 1754. He was educated in Dublin, and having obtained an appointment in the civil service of the
East
  India Company arrived at Benkulen,
Sumatra
 , in 1771. There he soon rose to the office of
principal
  secretary to the government, and acquired a knowledge of the Malay language and country. Returning to England in 1779 with a pension, he wrote his History of
Sumatra
 , published in 1783. Marsden was appointed in 1795 second secretary and afterwards first secretary to the admiralty. In 1807 he retired and published in 1812 his
Gram
 -mar and Dictionary of the Malay Language, and in 1818 his
translation
  of the Travels of Marco Polo. He was a member of many learned
societies
 , and treasurer and vice-president of the Royal Society. In 1834 he presented his collection of oriental coins to the British Museum, and his library of books and Oriental MSS. to King's College, London. He died on the 6th of October 1836.
Marsden's other works are: Numismata orientalia (London, 18231825) ; Catalogue of Dictionaries, Vocabularies, Grammars and Alphabets (1996); and several papers on Eastern topics in the Philosophical Transactions and the Archaelogia.


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