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Apr 24, 1820 Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island, Canada Died on 11 Feb 1908 (aged 87)
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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.
