Early Life
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed was born in a merchant family to William Halhed, a bank director, on 25 May 1751 and christened in the parish of St. Peter-le-Poor, Old Broad Street. His mother was Frances, daughter of late John Caswell, M.P. for Leominster. Nathaniel went to Harrow School from the age of seven to seventeen. William Jones, who would carry on the Halhed’s work on Oriental Literature in India, also went to the same school. Halhed entered Christ Church on 13 July 1768 at the age of seventeen. He remained there for three years but did not take a degree. Jones had preceded him from Harrow to Oxford and they shared an intellectual relationship.
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