Henry Beveridge was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer and Orientalist

Oriental studies

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  in British India. He is one the few administrator-historians who studied Indian affairs with a radical outlook.

His son William Beveridge

William Beveridge

William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.Lord...

 was a noted British economist.

Personal life

He married Annette Akroyd, daughter of William Akroyd. The couple has two children a daughter, Annette Jeanie Beveridge (d. 1956) and
son William Beveridge

William Beveridge

William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.Lord...

 1st (1879–1963) was a noted British economist and social reformer, and first and last Baron Beveridge.

He lived at Pitfold, Shottermill

Shottermill

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, Surrey

Surrey

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, England and died in 1929.

Works

• Life and Manners in Bengal
• Christianity in India
• Were Sundarbans Inhabited in Ancient Times?
• Timur’s Apocryphal Memoirs
• The Trial of Maharaja Nanda Kumar, A Narrative of a Judicial Murder (১৮৮৬) (1886)
• District of Bakarganj: Its History and Statistics ১৮৭৬
• Warren Hastings in Lower Bengal
• The Story of Nuncumar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey

Translations Works

• The Tūzuk-i-Jahangīrī Or Memoirs Of Jahāngīr, Alexander Rogers and Henry Beveridge. London, Royal Asiatic Society, 1909–1914.
• The Akbarnama of Abu-L-Fazl, Vol. I & II, Delhi: Low Price Publications, (1902–39, Reprint 2010). ISBN 81 7536 482 3.
• The Akbarnama of Abu-L-Fazl, Vol. III, Delhi: Low Price Publications, (1902–39, Reprint 2010). ISBN 81 7536 483 1.
• The Akbarnama of Abu-L-Fazl, Set of 3 Volumes, Bound in 2, Delhi: Low Price Publications, (1902–39, Reprint 2010). ISBN 81 7536 481 5.