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Person’s Profile

James Sutcliffe(d.1878)

Description

Principal of the Hindu (later Presidency) College Calcutta 1852-76, and Director of Public Instruction for Bengal 1876-78

Biography

He wrote to CMY about the publication in India of Landmarks of History: Ancient History, and his handwriting was so bad that she mistook his name for Ratcliffe.

British Library OIOC MSS Eur Photo Eur 232 consists of copies of letters from James Sutcliffe to his mother and family in England.