M. A. Sherring

Matthew Atmore Sherring (1826–1880), usually cited as M. A. Sherring, was a Anglican missionary in British India who was also an Indologist and wrote a number of works related to India. He was educated at Coward College, a dissenting academy in London that trained people for nonconformist ministry.[1]

Sherring joined the London Missionary Society and worked in the city of Varanasi, about which he wrote a significant book (The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times).[2]

  1. ^ Dixon, Simon N. (June 2011). "Coward College (1833-1850)". Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia. Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  2. ^ Malik, Jamal (2000). Perspectives of mutual encounters in South Asian history, 1760-1860. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-11802-7.