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 162" LIFE OF BABU TtAM 'GOPAL GHOSE. sacrifice. With these preliminary remarks, we now proceed to the narration of the chief events in the life 1 of this illustrious man. Babu Ram Gopal Ghose was the son of Babu Gobind Chunder Ghose, a man of some competence' but not rich. His grand-father Babu Jogo Mohun Ghose was an employe in the Firm of Messrs. King ,- Hamilton & Co., of Calcutta, and was no better oB than the rather of Ram Gopal. Bondipara in the dis4 trict of Hoogly was the original place from which the* family migrated to Bagatee, a village a mile off from' Tribeny. It was perhaps the grand-father of Ram* Gopal who migrated from Bagatee to Calcutta, where- Ram Gopal was born in the month of Ashin of the* Bengalee year 1221, corresponding to the month oi October, 1 8 1 5. The father of Babu Ram Gopal had a' shop in China Bazar as a Marine -Store-keeper and passed his days in somewhat straitened circumstances; It is said that he received the rudiments of English education at a little school kept by one Mr. Sher- bourne, an East-Indian. But his son-in-law, Babu Beer Chundra Miter assures us that Ram Gopal received his early education at the Hare preparatory School and join J ed the Hindoo College in 1824, when he was about nine years of age. Babu Ram Tonoo Lahiry, one of Babu Ram Gopal's intimate friends now living, tells us that one Mr. Rogers, a European partner in the Firm of Messrs Hamilton & Co., used to pay his schooling-fee, his father being too poor to pay all the expenses of his education. Babu Koilash Chundra Bose in his lecture on Ram Gopal Ghose, delivered in 1868, says that Ram Gopal soon after his admission into the College, so endeared himself, by his lovely manners and display of intellect, to David Hare that the great philanthropist put his name on the free list of students. The interest- ing details of his scholastic career have now fallen into obscurity, and nothing can be now positively known except what men like Babu Koilash Chundra Bose