Notes for: James Bourdillon Bilderbeck

From Alumni Cantrabrigienses: Adm. scholar at ST CATHARINE'S, Oct. 14, 1870. S. of John, clerk. B. [May 30, 1851] at Madras, East Indies. [School, Tonbridge.] Matric. Michs. 1870; Scholar; B.A. 1874; M.A. 1879. Went to Madras, 1875; entered the Indian Educational Service. Professor of English Literature and Principal of the Presidency College, Madras. A member of the Supreme Legislative Council (Govt. of India) 1903-4. Returned to England. Took up residence at Cambridge. College Librarian. Edited Chaucer's works, etc. Died Feb. 11, 1933, aged 82, at Bexhill, Kent. (St Catharine's Coll. Mag.; The Times, Feb. 14, 1933.)