​BODEN, JOSEPH ( ? –1811)

Entered the E. I. Co.'s Bombay Native Army in 1781: Lt-Colonel 1806: held appointments on the Staff in Bombay: was Member of the Military Board: retired in 1807 and died Nov. 21, 1811. Though not a Sanskrit scholar, and not a writer, he left a large sum of money to found, after his daughter's death, a professorship of Sanskrit at Oxford. H. H. Wilson (q.v.) was the first professor appointed, in 1832.