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William Marsden

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Novelist
Died
Oct 6, 1836
Zodiac
Scorpio
Born in
Ireland
About
Remembered as a senior member of the Royal Navy's Admiralty during the Napoleonic Wars, this Irishman also became famous as the author of A Dictionary of the Malayan Language and The History of Sumatra, both of which were written based on his experiences in Sumatra as an employee of the East India Company.
Family
He grew up in County Wicklow, Ireland, as the son of a merchant father. He later married Elizabeth Wilkins and settled in London, England.

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