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Long, James
The following data is extracted from Long Family Records.
(1814-1887), missionary: ordained priest in the Church of England, 1840, and about 1846 went to India as a missionary in the service of the Church Missionary Society, being stationed at Thakurpukur, a village in the district of the Twenty-four Parganas, near Calcutta; as he had spent some part of his early life in Russia, be was well known at the Russian court, and kept up his connections there; in his writings he dwelt on the similarity between the social system and folklore of that country and India; he was a member of the Bengal Asiatic Society and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Source: Long Family Records
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