Cowell, EDWARD BYLES,

Cowell, EDWARD BYLES, a learned Sanskrit scholar, was born at Ipswich, January 23, 1826. He was educated at Ipswich grammar-school and Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and in 1856 sailed for Calcutta, to fill the chair of History in the newly-established Presidency College, becoming also soon after principal of the Sanskrit College. He returned home in 1864, and was elected in 1867 professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge, and in 1874 to a fellowship in Corpus Christi College. He has published a long series of Sanskrit texts and translations, alone or in collaboration with other scholars, and edited Colebrooke's Essays (1873). He was a contributor to this work.