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ORIENTAL learning has suffered a serious loss by the death, at the age of eighty-five years, of Mr. Charles Henry Tawney, C.I.E. Educated at Rugby and Cambridge, where he gained the highest classical honours, and a fellowship at Trinity College, Mr. Tawney joined the Indian Educational Service, and became professor at the Presidency College, Calcutta, where he won the esteem of his pupils by his kindness and learning. He became Director of Public Instruction in Bengal, and retired from the Educational Service in 1892. On reaching England he became librarian at the India Office. Much of his time was occupied in assisting writers on Indian subjects, by whom he was regarded with the greatest esteem. He was an admirable Sanskrit scholar, and published several works, the best known of which are translations of two great collections of Indian folk-tales, the Katha Sarit Sagara and the Katha Kosa, enriched with valuable notes, which displayed a wide knowledge of the literature of folk-tales. One of his sons, Mr. R. H. Tawney, Fellow of Balliol, is a distinguished writer and lecturer on economic problems.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 110, 225 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110225c0
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