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Cecil Bendall (1 July 1856 – 14 March 1906) was an English scholar, a professor ofSanskrit atUniversity College London and later at theUniversity of Cambridge.

Bendall was educated at theCity of London School and at theUniversity of Cambridge, achievingfirst-class honours in the ClassicalTripos in 1879 and the Indian Languages Tripos in 1881. He was elected to a fellowship atGonville and Caius College.

From 1882 to 1893 he worked at theBritish Museum in the department of Oriental Manuscripts (now part of theBritish Library).

In 1894–1895 he was in Nepal and Northern India collecting oriental manuscripts forBritish Museum. During the winter 1898–1899 he returned to Nepal and together with panditHara Prasad Shastri and his assistant pandit Binodavihari Bhattacharya from theAsiatic Society in Calcutta, the team registered and collected information from palm-leaf manuscripts in the Durbar Library belonging to Rana Prime MinisterBir Shumsher J. B. Rana, and here he found the famous historical documentGopal Raj Vamshavali, describing Nepal's history from around 1000 to 1600.

He was Professor of Sanskrit atUniversity College London from 1895 to 1902, and at Cambridge from 1903 until his death.

He was a contributor to theDictionary of National Biography.

He died in Liverpool in 1906 and is buried at theParish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.

• W. B. Owen, "Bendall, Cecil (1856–1906)", rev. R. S. Simpson,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004accessed 11 March 2013
• "BENDALL, Cecil",Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online ed., Oxford University Press, Dec 2007accessed 11 March 2013
• "Obituary: Mr. Cecil Bendall, Professor of Sanscrit".The Times. No. 37968. 15 March 1906. p. 10. Retrieved12 March 2013.
• "Cecil Bendall (BNDL875C)".A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
• Cecil Bendall:A Journey of Literary and Archaeological Research in Nepal and Northern India during the winter 1884–5, Cambridge University Press, 1886 - 154 sider
• Hara Prasad Shastri.A Catalogue of Palm-Leaf and selected Paper Manuscripts belonging to the Durbar Library, Nepal, Calcutta 1905—with historical introduction by Cecil Bendall (including a description ofGopal Raj Vamshavali)

• Media related toCecil Bendall at Wikimedia Commons
• Cecil Bendall atFind a Grave

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