Cowell, Edward Byles, 1826-1903 (orientalist)
Dates
- Existence: 1826 - 1903
Biography
Edward Byles Cowell (1826-1903), scholar and man of letters, was born at Ipswich on 23 January 1826. He studied Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic, before training in his father's business as a merchant and maltster from 1842. He entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1850 (B.A., 1854), and catalogued manuscripts for the Bodleian Library. Cowell was Professor of English History at Presidency College, Calcutta, 1856-1864, and became Principal of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta in 1858. He returned to England in 1864, and became the first Professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University, 1867-1903. He founded the Cambridge Philological Society in 1868, and became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1874. Cowell died at Cambridge on 9 February 1903.
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Bernard Barton: Letters and Related Papers
Letters from Barton, mainly to Elizabeth Cowell, daughter of the Revd John Charlesworth, and wife of the scholar Edward Byles Cowell. There is an accompanying newspaper obituary of Barton.
Edward Byers Cowell: Correspondence
Edward Byles Cowell: Brennus Stories
Essays upon various books admired and read by EBC, with general reflections upon the place of libraries and books in human life; divided into twelve sections with a conclusion. One or two verses, a preface and a dedication in verse (to the writer's wife) precede the opening section. At the foot of p. 162 is the date 15 July 1847.
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Ethical and theological extracts and notes, lecture notes on 'mental philosophy,' welsh poetry and Michaelangelo's sonnets, both translated into English.
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Miscellaneous papers, including passports, reports, certificates, University information, correspondence, translations from Welsh and a copy of 'Bird Parliament' by Edward Fitzgerald
Edward FitzGerald: Bird-Parliament and letters
Manuscript of Fitzgerald's translation of a Sufi poem and letters to Elizabeth and Edward Cowell.
Edward FitzGerald: letters to the Cowell Family and others
List of the Pote Collection at Eton
Transcript of the roll lists of the portion of E.E. Pote's collection of oriental manuscripts presented to Eton College in 1788, in the hand of E.B. Cowell.
Translation by E.B. Cowell of Ellis Wynne's Gwelidigaethan y Bardd Cwsg ('Visions of the sleeping Bard')
Translation of the poems of Llynwarch Owain Gwalchmai by Llynwarch O. Reynolds
Includes: (fo. i) title-page; (fo. iv) note on Gwalchmai's descent; (fo. ii) list of contents; (fo. 1) note on the text; (fo. 3) text of the translation, with footnotes; (fo. 46) index of names. Attached to fo. ii is a letter from Reynolds to E.B. Cowell, 2 October 1882.
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