George Augustus Addison
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George Augustus Addison (Calcutta, 1792—Java, about January 1815) was the author of collected works published posthumously under the title, Indian Reminiscences, or the Bengal Moofussul Miscellany, in London
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 by Edward Bull in 1837. A young man of high promise, he died prematurely in India
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of a fever. His knowledge of languages, his mathematical and classical attainments, his excellent qualities, and his religious character, are all highly extolled in the introduction to that work.
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