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John Borthwick Gilchrist
Extracted from the Wikipedia article John Gilchrist (linguist).
John Borthwick GilchristFRSE (19 June 1759 – 9 January 1841) was a Scottishsurgeon, linguist, philologist and Indologist. Born and educated in Edinburgh, he spent most of his early career in India, where he made a study of the local languages. In later life, he returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh and London. In his final years, he moved to Paris, where he died at the age of 81.