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Arnold, Sir Edwin, born in 1832, died 1904. Journalist and poet, educated at King´s Colege, London, and Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize in 1853. He was for several years principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poonah, Bombay residency, but resigned his post in 1861, when he first became connected with the London "Daily Telegraph," for which he continued to write, finally being appointed editor. His "Light of Asia" (1879) achieved extraordinary popularity, and obtained him a high place among the poets of the day.
He became a schoolmaster, and went to India as principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona, a post which he held during the mutiny of 1857, when he was able to render services which he was publicly thanked by Lord Elphinstone in the Bombay council. Returning to England in 1861 he worked as journalist on the staff of the Daily Telegraph, a newspaper with which he continued to be associated for more than forty ars. It was he who, on. behalf of the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph in conjunction with the New York Herald, arranged the journey of HM Stanley to Africa to discover the course the Congo, and Stanley named after him a mountain to the north-east of Albert Edward Nyanza.
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