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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
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  Davis    
First Name(s)  Samuel    
Year of Birth  1760    
Year of Death  1819    
Entry  Went to Bengal as an officer of Engineers : was an excellent artist : accompanied Turner's Embassy to Tibet in 1783, but he himself did not advance beyond Bhutan : he was afterwards admitted to the E.I. Co.'s civil service : was District Judge and Agent to the Governor-General at Benares and had an observatory there : as a mathematician and astronomer, he identified astronomical references in Sanskrit works. When Wazir Ali, the deposed Nawab of Oudh, revolted in Jan., 1799, and murdered Mr. Cherry, then the Governor-General's Agent, he afterwards, with a crowd of followers, attacked Davis, who, on Jan. 14, 1799, successfully defended himself and his family, standing at the top of a staircase, pike in hand, until rescued by British troopers. Davis became a Director of the E. I. Co., from 1810 to 1819, and wrote the well-known Fifth Report on the Permanent Settlement : F.R.S. : died June 16, 1819.     
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