Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bendall, Cecil
BENDALL, CECIL (1856–)
Born July 1, 1856: educated at City of London School, Trinity and Caius Colleges, Cambridge: first class. Classical Tripos, and first class Indian Languages Tripos: Fellow, Caius College, 1879–85: at the British Museum, in the Department of Oriental MSS. and printed books, 1882–98: Curator of Oriental Literature in the Cambridge University Library, 1892: Professor of Sanskrit at University College, London, 1885–1903, and at Cambridge since 1903 (previously Sanskrit lecturer there): travelled in India and Nipal, 1884–5 and 1898–9: on the Council of the R. A .S., 1901: published A Journey of Literary and AfchcBological Research in Nipal and Northern India, 1886: and Catalogues of Buddhist Sanskrit MSS at Cambridge, and of .Sanskrit Pali books, and MSS, in the British Museum, besides other works on Sanskrit.