George Uglow Pope, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge Uglow Pope
Indian missionary
Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1820
Place of Birth: Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date of Death: 11-Feb-1908
Profession: missionary, translator, researcher
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About George Uglow Pope
- George Uglow Pope (24 April 1820 – 11 February 1908) or G.U.
- Pope was an Anglican Christian missionary and Tamil scholar who spent 40 years in Tamil Nadu and translated many Tamil texts into English.
- His popular translations included those of the Tirukkural and Thiruvasagam.
- He later took to teaching, running his own school in Ootacamund for while and then moving to head the Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore and after returning to England worked as a Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford.
- A statue on the Chennai beach recognizes him for his contribution to the understanding and promotion of the Tamil language.
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