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Date transcribed2011-05-01
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  Judson    
First Name(s)  Adoniram    
Year of Birth  1788    
Year of Death  1850    
Entry  Missionary : born at Maiden, Massachusetts, Aug. 9, 1788 : son of a Congregational minister : educated at the Brown University and Andover Theological Seminary : attracted, by reading a sermon of Dr. Claudius Buchanan (q.v.), to missionary work in India : sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to India, 18 12 : ordered by the Bengal Government to leave Calcutta, went via Mauritius to Madras and Rangoon in July, 1813 : preached to the Burmese : went up to Ava, established schools : taken prisoner on outbreak of first Burmese war : imprisoned at Oungpenla for 19 months, cruelly treated, released on the conclusion of peace in 1826 : published a Burmese-English dictionary in 1826 : and a Burmese grammar : translated the Bible into Burmese, 1835, revised, 1840 : went to Amherst and Moulmain : visited America in 1845, enthusiastically received : returned to Moulmain : unable to complete his larger Burmese dictionary : died at sea on April 12, 1850, on a voyage to the Isle of Bourbon for his health : thrice married : the first Mrs. Judson wrote A History of the Burman Mission : Colonel Sir H. M. Durand wrote an article on Judson as The Apostle of Burma, in vol. xiv, number 28, of the Calcutta Review.     
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