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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed	2011-01-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Corrie
	First Name(s)	The Right Rev. Daniel
	Year of Birth	1777
	Year of Death	1837
	Entry	Bishop : son of John Corrie : born April, 1777 : educated privately, at Clare Hall, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Exhibitioner) : ordained, 1802 : went to Calcutta as a Bengal chaplain, 1806 : appointed to various chaplaincies up-country, and did mission work also : was Senior Chaplain in Calcutta, 1817 : Archdeacon in 1823 : thrice, as Commissary, carried on the administration of the diocese on the deaths of Bishops : was the first Bishop of Madras from 1835 to his death on Feb. 5, 1837 : was LL.D. : Bishop Corrie's Grammar School in Madras, and his statue in the Cathedral there perpetuate his memory. He was a friend of Charles Simeon and Henry Martyn at Cambridge.

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