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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Nathaniel Edward Kindersley<br />
| image = Portrait of Nathaniel Edward Kindersley (1763-1831) (by John Smart).jpg<br />
| caption = 1787 portrait<br />
| birth_name = <br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1763|02|2}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Great Yarmouth]], Norfolk, England<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1831|2|16|1763|2|2}}<br />
| death_place = [[Little Marlow]], Buckinghamshire, England<br />
| known_for = First translator of [[Tirukkural]] into [[English language|English]]<br />
| occupation = Officer, British East India Company<br />
| mother = [[Jemima Kindersley|Jemima Wickstead]]<br />
| spouse = Hannah Butterworth<br />
| children = 2, including [[Richard Torin Kindersley]]<br />
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'''Nathaniel Edward Kindersley''' (2 February 1763 – 16 February 1831) was an [[English people|English]] civil service officer to the [[British East India Company]]. He is known for being the first translator of the [[Tirukkural]] into English in 1794.<ref>{{cite web<br />
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aVsUAAAAQAAJ<br />
| title = Specimens of Hindoo Literature: Consisting of Translations, from the Tamoul Language, of Some Hindoo Works of Morality and Imagination, with Explanatory Notes<br />
| last = Kindersley<br />
| first = Nathaniel Edward<br />
| date = 1794<br />
| location = London<br />
| publisher = W. Bulmer and Company<br />
| access-date = 11 June 2017<br />
}}</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
Nathaniel Edward Kindersley was born to Nathaniel Kindersley and [[Jemima Kindersley|Jemima Wickstead]] at [[Great Yarmouth]], [[Norfolk]], [[England]]. He married Hannah Butterworth and they had two sons named Sir Richard Torin Kindersley (born 5 October 1792, died 22 October 1879)<ref>{{acad|id=KNDY809RT|name=Kindersley, Richard Torin}}</ref> and Nathaniel William Kindersley (born 1794, died 3 December 1844).<ref>{{acad|id=KNDY811NW|name=Kindersley, Nathaniel William}}</ref><br />
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He died on 16 February 1831 at the age of 68 at [[Little Marlow]], Buckinghamshire, England.<br />
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==Works==<br />
Nathaniel Edward Kindersley published the first ever translation of the Tirukkural into English in a chapter titled 'Extracts from the Teroo-Vaulaver Kuddul, or, The Ocean of Wisdom' in his publication ''Specimens of Hindoo Literature'' in 1794. However, he translated only the first few chapters of [[Book of Aram|Book I]] of the Kural text in prose.<ref>{{cite web<br />
| url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.106452<br />
| title = Specimens Of Hindu Literature <br />
| last = Kindersley <br />
| first = N. E. <br />
| date = 1794<br />
| access-date = 11 June 2017<br />
}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Tirukkural translations]]<br />
* [[Tirukkural translations into English]]<br />
* [[List of translators into English]]<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Henry Davidson Love. (1913). ''Indian Records Series Vestiges of Old Madras 1640-1800'' (4 vols.). New Delhi: Mittal Publications.<br />
* N. E. Kindersley. (1794). ''Specimens of Hindoo Literature'': Consisting of Translations, from the Tamoul Language, of Some Hindoo Works of Morality and Imagination, with Explanatory Notes. London: W. Bulmer and Company (sold by F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse). 335 pp.<br />
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