MATHER, Robert Cotton. Manchester 8.11.1808 — London 21.4.1877. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and Hindi Scholar in India. Son of Rev. James Mather and Ann Speakman (1772–1809), educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities (M.A. 1831), then theology at Homerton College. Ordained priest in 1833 and went to India for the London Missionary Society. First in Benares, in 1838 settled at Mirzapur founding a local mission. Built schools and churches. Returned to England in 1873. LL.D. 1862 Glasgow. Married 1833 Elizabeth Sewell, the author of a Bible dictionary in Hindustani, after his death she returned to Mirzapur and died there in 1879. They had children. Father-in-law of —> M. A. Sherring.
Publications: Revised and edited the Bible in Hindustani, wrote in Hindi and Urdu, e.g. a commentary on the New Testament in Hindustani.
– Christian Missions in India on the present state and prospects of Christian missions in India: and the duty of the churches at the present crisis of our Indian affairs. 20 p. L. 1858.
– Glossary, Hindúṣtání and English, to the New Testament and Psalms. 226 p. London 1861.
Sources: Buckland, Dictionary; *K. Prior, Oxford D.N.B.; C.W.S[utton], D.N.B. 37, 1894, 30f.; Wikipedia with portrait; ancestry.com names his mother (but ignores wife) and locates his birth in Salford, Lancashire 8.11.1809, death in North Finchley, Middlesex.
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