<P> James Long (1814--1887) was an Anglo - Irish priest of the Anglican Church . A humanist, educator, evangelist, translator, essayist, philanthropist and a missionary to India, he resided in the city of Calcutta, India, from 1840 to 1872 as a member of the Church Missionary Society, leading the mission at Thakurpukur . </P> <P> Long was closely associated with the Calcutta School - Book Society, the Bethune Society, the Bengal Social Science Association and The Asiatic Society . He also published the English translation of the play Nil Darpan by Dinabandhu Mitra, an act for which he was subsequently prosecuted for libel, fined, and briefly jailed . </P> <P> James Long was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland in 1814, when Ireland was still a part of the United Kingdom, to John Long and his wife Anne . At the age of twelve he was enrolled at the newly opened Bandon Endowed School, where he learnt "Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French and English languages; Euclid, Algebra, Logic; Arithmetic, Book - keeping, Reading, Writing, History and Geography". He proved an excellent student, distinguishing himself especially in theology and the classics . </P>

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