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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Anglo-Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata. He was a radical thinker of his time and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.

He was born on 18th April 1809 at Entally-Padmapukur in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India.

He belonged to the Anglo-Indian community of India and his father, Francis Derozio, was a Christian Indo-Portuguese while his mother, Sophia Johnson Derozio, was English.

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His father served in J Scott and company in Calcutta, with his own house property and was also able to educate his children in private schools. Derozio attended David Drummond’s Dharmatala Academy from age 6 to 14. Derozio's later religious skepticism is sometimes attributed to David Drummond, who was known as a freethinker.

In May 1826, at age 17, he was appointed teacher in English literature and history at the new Hindu College.

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