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Nathaniel Edward Kindersley
portrait by John Smart, 1787
Born	(1763-02-02)2 February 1763^[1] Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Died	16 February 1831(1831-02-16) (aged 68) Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Officer, British East India Company
Known for	First translator of Tirukkural into English
Spouse	Hannah Butterworth
Children	Sir Richard Torin Kindersley and Nathaniel William Kindersley
Parents	Nathaniel Kindersley (father) Jemima Wickstead (mother)

Nathaniel Edward Kindersley (2 February 1763 – 16 February 1831) was an English civil service officer to the British East India Company. He is known for being the first translator of the Tirukkural into English in 1794.^[2]

Family

Nathaniel Edward Kindersley was born to Nathaniel Kindersley and Jemima Wickstead at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. He married Hannah Butterworth on 3 July 1786 at Tangernaikpuram, Tamil Nadu, India,^[3] and they had two sons named Sir Richard Torin Kindersley (born 5 October 1792, died 22 October 1879)^[4] and Nathaniel William Kindersley (born 1794, died 3 December 1844).^[5]

He died on 16 February 1831 at the age of 68 at Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England.^[6]

Works

Nathaniel Edward Kindersley published the first ever translation of the Tirukkural into English in a chapter titled 'Extracts from the Teroo-Vaulaver Kuddul, or, The Ocean of Wisdom' in his publication Specimens of Hindoo Literature in 1794. However, he translated only the first few chapters of Book I of the Kural text in prose.^[7]

References

^ "Place Index - 713 (Tangernaikpuram)". thepeerage.com. The Peerage. n.d. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
^ Kindersley, Nathaniel Edward (1794). "Specimens of Hindoo Literature: Consisting of Translations, from the Tamoul Language, of Some Hindoo Works of Morality and Imagination, with Explanatory Notes". London: W. Bulmer and Company. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
^ "Nathaniel Edward Kindersley". Geni.com. 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
^ "Kindersley, Richard Torin (KNDY809RT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ "Kindersley, Nathaniel William (KNDY811NW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ Lundy, Darryl (2015). "The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe (Person Page - 56729)". The Peerage. Darryl Lundy, Wellington, New Zealand. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
^ Kindersley, N. E. (1794). "Specimens Of Hindu Literature". Retrieved 11 June 2017.

Henry Davidson Love. (1913). Indian Records Series Vestiges of Old Madras 1640-1800 (4 vols.). New Delhi: Mittal Publications.
N. E. Kindersley. (1794). Specimens of Hindoo Literature: Consisting of Translations, from the Tamoul Language, of Some Hindoo Works of Morality and Imagination, with Explanatory Notes. London: W. Bulmer and Company (sold by F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse). 335 pp.

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Ahimsa (Inna seyyaamai)
Artha (Porul)
Compassion (Arul)
Dharma (Aram)
Discipline (Olukkam)
Giving (Eegai)
Gratitude (Nandri)
Hospitality (Virundhombal)
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Medieval	Dharumar Manakkudavar Dhamatthar Nacchar Paridhi Thirumalaiyar Mallar Pari Perumal Kaalingar Parimelalhagar
Modern	Vedagiri Mudaliar Saravanaperumal Aiyar K. Vadivelu Chettiar Kaviraja Pandithar Thirumeni Rathna Kavirayar Ramanuja Kavirayar V. O. Chidambaram Pillai Thiru Vi Ka Bharathidasan M. Varadarajan Namakkal Kavignar V. Munusamy V. R. Nedunchezhiyan Devaneya Pavanar Karunanidhi Solomon Pappaiah

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Indian languages	Gujarati: Kantilal L. Kalani P. C. Kokila Kannada: L. Gundappa B. M. Srikanthaiah S. Srinivasan Konkani: Narayana Purushothama Mallaya Suresh Gundu Amonkar Malayalam: G. Balakrishnan Nair Tiruvallam Bhaskaran Nair Marathi: Pandurang Sadashiv Sane Meitei: Soibam Rebika Devi Odia: Chittaranjan Das Gananath Das Punjabi: Tarlochan Singh Bedi Sanskrit: S. N. Sriramadesikan Saurashtra: Sankhu Ram
English	V. V. S. Aiyar K. M. Balasubramaniam A. Chakravarti William Henry Drew Charles E. Gover N. E. Kindersley John Lazarus S. M. Michael George Uglow Pope H. A. Popley Edward Jewitt Robinson Sivaya Subramuniyaswami P. S. Sundaram G. Vanmikanathan Emmons E. White
Other languages	Czech: Kamil V. Zvelebil Fijian: Paul Geraghty Finnish: Pentti Aalto French: E. S. Ariel Alain Daniélou Gnanou Diagou Pierre-Eugène Lamairesse German: August Friedrich Caemmerer Karl Graul Friedrich Rückert Albert Schweitzer Irish: Gabriel Rosenstock Japanese: Shuzo Matsunaga Takanobu Takahashi Latin: Constanzo Beschi Karl Graul Mandarin: Yu Hsi

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