Dictionary of Indian Biography/Burrow, Reuben
BURROW, REUBEN (1747–1792)
A distinguished mathematician and astronomer : born Dec. 30, 1747. son of a farmer : educated at Leeds : became a clerk, usher, schoolmaster, assistant astronomer and schoolmaster at Greenwich, arithmetical teacher at the Tower, edited the Royal Almanack, went to India in 1782, learnt Sanskrit : wrote to Warren Hastings, then Governor-General : appointed to teach mathematics to the Engineers, and on the Survey of Bengal : an early member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for whom, and the Asiatic Researches, he contributed eleven papers about the mathematics and astronomy of the Hindus : died at Baxar, June 7, 1792.