<Tr> <Th> Citizenship </Th> <Td> England </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Orientalist, typographer </Td> </Tr> <P> Sir Charles Wilkins, KH, FRS (1749--13 May 1836), was an English typographer and Orientalist, and founding member of The Asiatic Society . He is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, and as the creator, alongside Panchanan Karmakar, of the first Bengali typeface . In 1788, Wilkins was elected a member of the Royal Society . </P> <P> He was born at Frome in Somerset in 1749 . He trained as a printer . In 1770 he went to India as a printer and writer in the East India Company's service . His facility with language allowed him to quickly learn Persian and Bengali . He was closely involved in the design of the first type for printing Bengali . He published the first typeset book in the language, earning himself the name "the Caxton of India". He also designed type for publications of books in Persian . In 1781 he was appointed as translator of Persian and Bengali to the Commissioner of Revenue and as superintendent of the Company's press . He successfully translated a Royal inscription in Kutila characters, which were thitherto indecipherable . </P>

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