Thomas Maurice
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Thomas Maurice (1754–1824) was a British oriental scholar and historian.
Life
The son of a schoolmaster, Maurice was educated at the Wesleyan seminary at Bristol before entering University College, Oxford in 1774, aged 19 (B.A. 1778, M.A. 1808); he was chaplain to the 87th regiment (about 1784), Vicar of Wormleighton, Warwickshire (1798–1824) and Cudham, Kent (1804–24). Maurice was a noted oriental scholar and historian, and assistant-keeper of MSS at the British Museum (1798-24).[1]
Text records
- 1775 - The School-Boy, a Poem.
- 1777 - A Monody, sacred to the Memory of Elizabeth, Dutchess of Northumberland.
- 1778 - The Oxonian. A Poem.
- 1779 - Hinda; an Eastern Elegy.
- 1784 - Westminster Abbey: an Elegiac Poem.
- 1795 - An Elegiac and Historical Poem, sacred to the Memory and Virtues of the Honourable Sir William Jones.
- 1806 - Verses, being an Apology for the Errors and Eccentricities of Genius.
Publications
- The school-boy, a poem. In imitation of Mr. Phillips's Splendid Shilling. 1775.
- Hagley. A descriptive poem. 1776.
- Netherby: a poem. 1776.
- A monody addressed to the memory of Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland. 1777.
- The Oxonian. A poem. 1778.
- Poems and miscellaneous pieces. 1779.
- Westminster Abbey: an elegiac poem. 1784.
- Panthea; or, the Captive bride, a tragedy; founded upon a story in Xenophon. 1789.
- A letter addressed to the ... directors of the East India Company. 1790.
- An elegiac poem, sacred to the memory and virtues of the Honorable Sir William Jones. 1795.
- Indian antiquities. 7 vols, 1793-1800.
- History of Hindustan. 2 vols, 1795–98; 3 vols, 1820.
- The crisis, or the British Muse to the British minister and nation. 1798.
- Sanscreet fragments, or interesting fragments from the sacred books of the Brahmins. 1798.
- Grove hill: a descriptive poem; with an ode to nature. 1799.
- A dissertation on the oriental trinities. 1800.
- Poems, epistolary, lyric, and elegiacal. 1800.
- The modern history of Hindostan. 2 vols, 1802-10.
- Select poems. 1803.
- Elegy on Right Honourable William Pitt. 1806.
- The fall of the Mogul, a tragedy. With other occasional poems. 1806.
- Richmond Hill: a descriptive and historical poem. 1807.
- Elegiac lines, sacred to the memory of Henry Hope. 1811.
- Brahminical fraud detected. 1812.
- Westminster Abbey, with other occasional poems. 1813.
- Observations connected with astronomy and ancient history. 1816.
- Observations on the ruins of Babylon. 1816.
- Observations on the remains of ancient Egyptian grandeur and superstition. 1818.
- Memoirs of the author of Indian antiquities, etc. 3 vols, 1819-22.
- A free translation of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles. 1822.
