George Augustus Addison (1792—14 January 1815) was a British public official and writer. Addison was born in

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in 1792, the son of John Addison, a civil servant in the

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who was at that time Judge of

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. He was sent home at the age of five to be educated at

Newcome's School Newcome's School was a fashionable boys' school in Hackney, then to the east of London, founded in the early 18th century. A number of prominent Whig families sent their sons there. The school closed in 1815, and the buildings were gutted in 182 ...

in Hackney before returning to the far east. Like his father, Addison became a public servant and by 1814 was Private Secretary to

Sir Stamford Raffles Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman who served as the Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816, and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. He is ...

. Whilst serving in

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, he succumbed to a fever and died on . His collected works were published posthumously under the title, ''Indian Reminiscences, or the Bengal Moofussul Miscellany'', in

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by Edward Bull in 1837. His knowledge of languages, his mathematical and classical attainments, his excellent qualities, and his religious character, are all highly extolled in the introduction to that work.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Addison, George British memoirists Writers from Kolkata 1792 births 1814 deaths People educated at Newcome's School 19th-century memoirists