Walter Elliot
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1803 – 1887
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Who was Walter Elliot?
Sir Walter Elliot was a Scottish civil servant in India. He was also an eminent orientalist, linguist, naturalist and ethnologist who worked mainly in the Presidency of Madras. Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the East India College in Haileybury and joined the Indian Civil Service at Madras in 1820 and worked on till 1860. He was invested Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1866.
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