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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  Derozio    
First Name(s)  Henry Louis Vivian    
Year of Birth  1809    
Year of Death  1831    
Entry  Eurasian poet and teacher : born in Calcutta, April 10, 1809 : son of Francis Derozio, a Calcutta merchant : educated at Drummond's Academy in Dharmtala : left school at 14 for commercial work, which he gave up, joining an uncle in indigo at Bhagalpur. At 18 he published a volume of poems and obtained a teachership at the Hindu College : was very successful as a teacher of philosophy, but lost his appointment, though the charges against him, of propagating atheism and encouraging disobedience, failed : still continued to exercise great influence over his former pupils, many of whom became distinguished men : contributed to journalism and established a newspaper, the East Indian. His name is still revered in his community as a great teacher. He died of cholera, Dec. 23, 1831 : he wrote the Fakir of Jungheera and other poems.     
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