WILSON, Horace Hayman, English Ori entalist : b. London, 26 Sept. 1786; d. there, 8 May 1860. Educated for the medical profes sion, in 1808 he went to Bengal as assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Com pany, but soon obtained an office in the Cal cutta mint, where he became associated with John Leyden. His leisure was devoted to the study of Sanskrit and so soon did he become known as an able Sanskrit scholar that in 1812 he was elected secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He acted for many years as secre tary of the committee of public education, and his exertions contributed to revive the interest of the Hindus in their own literature as well as to create among them an interest in the science and literature of Europe. He remained in India till his election in 1832 to the Boden professorship of Sanskrit at Oxford University, and in 1836 he was appointed librarian of the East India Company and elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Among his numerous publica
tions are Meghaduta, or Cloud Messen ger,' a Sanskrit poem, with an English trans lation, notes, etc. (1813) ; 'Sanskrit-English Dictionary' (1819-40) ;