Eastwick

Eastwick, EDWARD BACKHOUSE, English Orientalist and diplomatist, was born at Warfield, in Berkshire, on 13th March 1814, and educated at the Charterhouse and Oxford. Proceeding to India as a cadet of the East India Company in 1836, he was soon chosen to fill political offices in Kathiawar and Sind. From 1845 to 1859 he was professor of Hindustani at Haileybury College, and in the latter year was appointed assistant political secretary in the India Office. He then spent three years (1860-63) as secretary of legation in Persia. He died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 16th July 1883. His best works are translations from the Persian (Saadi's Gulistan, 1852; Arrival of the Parsees in India, 1845; Life of Zoroaster, 1843; and Anwar-i Suhaili, 1854); a Hindustani Grammar (1847; 2d ed. 1858); Journal of a Diplomat in Persia (1864); and Kaisar-nama-i-Hind or Lay of the Empress (1878-82). He also translated into English Bopp's Comparative Grammar (1856) and Schiller's Revolt of the Netherlands (1844).