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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Crowe    
First Name(s)  Sir Joseph Archer    
Year of Birth  1825    
Year of Death  1896    
Entry  Journalist, art-critic, and diplomatist : son of Eyre Evans Crowe : born Oct. 20, 1825 : artist of Illustrated London News in the Crimea : present at the engagements : appointed Superintendent of the ""Sir Jamsetji Jijihbai's School of Design"" at Bombay, 1857 : Editor, successively, of the Bombay Gazette and Bombay Standard, and correspondent of the Daily News and Times during the mutiny : Secretary of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce : left India owing to ill-health, 1859 : Times' correspondent in Italian war of 1859 : present at Solferino : appointed Consul-General for Saxony, 1860 : entered diplomatic service, 1880 : Commercial Attache for Europe, 1882-1895 : joint author with Cavalcasella of Histories of Flemish and Italian Painters, Lives of Titian and Raphael : published a volume of Reminiscences : died Sep. 6, 1896.     
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