Dictionary of Indian Biography/Colebrooke, Sir Thomas Edward, Baronet
COLEBROOKE, SIR THOMAS EDWARD, BARONET (1813–1890)
Son of Henry Thomas Colebrooke (q.v.) : born in Calcutta in 1813 : succeeded as Baronet in 1838 : was nearly 40 years M.P. for Taunton and Lanarkshire : was not a scholar, but was in sympathy with Oriental scholars and with research : was President of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1864–6, 1875–7, 1881 : published the Life of Mountstuart Elphinstone, Essays by H. T. Colebrooke, The Creeds of India, a pamphlet : edited and published a third volume of Elphinstone's India : died Jan. II, 1890.