Henry Beveridge (historian)

Henry Beveridge
Born1799
Scotland
Died1863 (aged 63–64)
Occupation(s)Lawyer, Translator and Historian
ChildrenHenry Beveridge (1837–1929)[1][2]

Henry Beveridge (1799–1863) was a Scottish lawyer, translator and historian.[3]

The Calvin Translation Society founded in May 1843 in Edinburgh. It published (1844–1855) translations of Calvin's books: Institutes of the Christian Religion, Commentaries, Tracts and Letters. Beveridge translated for the Calvin Translation Society included a collection of Calvin's Tracts Relating to the Reformation, three volumes in 1844 and he translated Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1845.[3] His edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion came out in three volumes, and contained in the introductory matter items that have been, not with-out loss, dropped out of later printings in both America and Britain. Beveridge had intended to enter the ministry; he later trained for the law and became a lawyer, but made writing his chief employment. He was engaged by the publishers Blackie and Son to write a A Comprehensive History of India, which he produced in three volumes (1858–63), without leaving British shore;[4] the book was printed in London and in New Delhi.

  1. ^ "BEVERIDGE, Henry – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen".
  2. ^ "BEVERIDGE, Henry – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen".
  3. ^ a b McNeill, John T. (1 January 1960). Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9781611644456 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Woolf, Daniel (17 February 2011). A Global History of History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521875752 – via Google Books.