James Talboys Wheeler
James Talboys Wheeler (Oxford, December 1824 – Ramsgate, 13 January 1897) was a bureaucrat-historian of the British Raj.James Talboys Wheeler was born in Oxford 22[1] or 23[2] December 1824. His parents were James Luft Wheeler, who was a bookseller
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James Talboys Wheeler (Oxford, December 1824 – Ramsgate, 13 January 1897) was a bureaucrat-historian of the British Raj.James Talboys Wheeler was born in Oxford 22[1] or 23[2] December 1824. His parents were James Luft Wheeler, who was a bookseller, and Anne Ophelia, whose father was the publisher and translator[3] David Alphonso Talboys and himself the son of a bookseller. James was privately educated and then attempted an unsuccessful career as a publisher and bookseller before venturing into authorship of student handbooks.[1] He worked for Henry George Bohn as a sub-editor, between 1845 and 1847,[2] and spent some time working as a clerk in the War Office during the Crimean War
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