• Samuel Davis (1760–1819) was an English soldier turned diplomat who later became a director of the East India Company (EIC). He was the father of John...
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  • Samuel or Sam Davis may refer to: Samuel Davis (orientalist) (1760–1819), British orientalist and amateur artist Samuel Davis (politician) (1774–1831)...
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    on Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subjects...
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    The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English...
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    William Jones (philologist) (category British orientalists)
    correspondence on the topic of jyotisa or Hindu astronomy with fellow orientalist Samuel Davis. He learnt the ancient concept of Hindu Laws from Pandit Jagannath...
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    Australia Portrait of Samuel L Clemens (Mark Twain), 1877. Free Public Library, Hannibal, Missouri. Bookplate of Francis Davis Millet. Between Two Fires...
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    (EIC) in 1844–45. Willock married Elizabeth Davis, daughter of EIC Director and orientalist Samuel Davis, in 1826. "Who was who in Central Asia (British)"...
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    Thomas Daniell (category English Orientalist painters)
    Bhagalpur (now in the Indian state of Bihar) with the orientalist and amateur artist Samuel Davis, whom Thomas had first met during his apprenticeship...
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    study Arabic and Persian at St John's College, Cambridge under eminent orientalist Reynold A. Nicholson. Fyzee is best known for his work Outlines of Muhammadan...
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  • Edited, translated and elucidated by British orientalists Henry Frederick Amedroz (1854–1917) and David Samuel Margoliouth (1858–1940). Includes the Book...
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