Quotes:Shakespeare, John

Boris de Zirkoff

Shakespeare, John. English Orientalist, b. at Lount, August, 1774; d. 1858. Son of a small farmer; educated at a school kept by a clergyman who brought him to the notice of Marquis of Hastings, the lord of the manor; the latter sent him to London to learn Arabic. About 1805, he was appointed to an Oriental professorship at Royal Military College, Marlow; in 1809, he became professor of Hindustani in training college fur cadets opened by the East India Co.; retired in 1829. He was a very frugal man, unmarried, and set money aside. Chief works: Hindustani Grammar, 1813; 6th ed., 1855. - *A Dictionary: Hindustani and English, 1817; 4th ed. (with addition of English and Hindustani), 1849. - Introduction to the Hindustani Language, 1845.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 524