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BY the death of MR. R. W. FRAZER, at sixty-seven years of age, India has lost a learned philologist and student of its literature and philosophy. Joining the Madras Civil Service in 1877, he was invalided in 1881 as the result of exposure on famine duties and service during a local disturbance in the Godavari Hills. On his retirement he became librarian of the London Institution, and it was by his initiative that it was absorbed by the School of Oriental Studies. Frazer lectured extensively on subjects connected with Southern India, and acquired a seldom-rivalled knowledge of Tamil and Telugu. He will be best remembered by his “British India ” in the “Story of the Nations” series, his “Literary History of India,” and “Indian Thought, Past and Present.” He was for a short time secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, succeeding Miss Hughes, who became his wife, and survives him.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 108, 476 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108476a0
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