Matthew Atmore Sherring (1826–1880), usually cited as M. A. Sherring, was an Anglican missionary in British India who was also an Indologist and wrote a number of works related to India.
He was educated at Coward College, a dissenting academy in London that trained people for nonconformist ministry.
[1] Sherring joined the London Missionary Society and worked in the city of Varanasi, about which he wrote a significant book (The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times).
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