Mark Prager Lindo

Meanwhile, Lindo had obtained a thorough grasp of the Dutch language, partly during his student years at Utrecht University, where in 1854 he gained the degree of doctor of literature for his annotations on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

His proficiency in the two languages led him to translate into Dutch several of the works of Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray and others, and afterwards also of Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne and Walter Scott.

The last-named was written in collaboration with Lodewyk Mulder, who contributed some of its drollest whimsicalities of Dutch life and character, which, for that reason, are almost untranslatable.

Lindo's serious original Dutch writings he published under his own name, the principal one being De Opkomst en Ontwikkeling van het Engelsche Volk (The Rise and Development of the British People, 2 vols.

Lindo was appointed an inspector of primary schools in the province of South-Holland in 1865, a post he held until his death at The Hague on 9 March 1877.