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Adm. pens. at SIDNEY, May 30, 1811; Fell.-Com. Sept. 30, 1811. Only s. of Thomas, Esq., deceased. B. Sept. 30, 1781, at St James's, Westminster, London. [School, private; educated partly by Menon, later one of Napoleon's Generals. Had gone to India as a Cadet in the Madras army in 1796; adjutant of a Sepoy Regt. forming part of Colonel Arthur Wellesley's brigade. Present at the siege of Seringapatam, and led the Company which carried the scaling ladders for the storming party, May 4, 1799. Retired, and obtained an appointment in the Madras Civil Service, 1801. At the College of Fort William, Calcutta, passing out with honours in Persian and Arabic, 1804. Registrar of the District Court at Rajamundri. Wrote a book on law in Arabic, for which the Government awarded him 10,000 rupees. Resigned, 1809, and left India.] ' Matric. Michs. 1811; B.A. 1815; M.A. 1818. Fellow, 1817. Ord. deacon (Ely, Litt. dim. to Salisbury) 1818; priest (London) Sept. 26, 1819. A candidate for the Arabic Professorship at Cambridge in March, 1819. Professor of Arabic and Persian at the East India College, Haileybury, 1824-34; Registrar there; resigned, 1834. Author of a text of Akhlak-i-Mahsini, translated from the Persian; Anwár-i-Suhaili; Persian Stories; Persian Fables; Sermons of the Rev. W. Sharpe, with Memoir. Married, 1824, Anne, dau. of Charles Apthorp Weelwright, a Royalist refugee, from Boston, Mass. Resided at 3, Mount Ephraim Road, Tunbridge Wells, from 1834. Died there Jan. 29, 1864. (Boase, II. 174; Clergy List; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1864, I. 398.)
| Year | Type | Name as Recorded | Location | Office/Status | Full Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1818 | Ordi(ordination) | Keene, Henry George | / | deacon | View |
| 1818 | Ordi(letters dimissory) | Keene, Henry George | / | deacon | View |
| 1819 | Ordi(ordination) | Keene, Henry George | / | priest | View |
| 1820 | Appt(Appointment) | Keene, Henry George | Frederick, Earl of Guilford / | domestic chaplain | View |