Thomas Maurice

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.

References

External links

• History of Hindostan
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3