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 18 LIFE OF MR. MANOMOHUN GHOSE. built a house and resided till the time of his death, that his second son, the famous Mr. Lai Mohun Ghose was born in 1849, the third and the youngest being Murali Mohun Ghose. CHAPTER II. HIS EDUCATION. Mr. Manomohun Ghose was educated, as a boy in the Krishnaghur Collegiate School ; and in March 1859, he passed the Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University, and joined the Presidency Col- lege, in 186 1. He studied here for the short period of one year only, as he left for England in the fol- lowing year with Mr. Satyendra Nath Tagore to compete for the Civil Service. He had, while yet a boy of 12 or 13, conceived the idea of proceeding to England for purposes of education, and his friendship with Mr. Satyendra Tagore in Calcutta, enabled him to carry out the idea, without much opposition from his parents, who would have naturally objected to send him to a foreign country without a friend or companion. The departure of these two young men on such a high educational mission, marks an epoch in the history of our country, for no other educated Bengali had preceded them for such an important purpose. The success which attended their efforts has since en- couraged many a native youth to follow in their foot- steps ; and the Indian Civil Service has now in its exalte ed ranks, Natives of India who are in no way inferior to their European brethern in education, administrative ability, probity and integrity, and the Bar is thronged with Native Barristers-at-Law who, in general, have proved themselves worthy of all the noblest traditions of their high profession. Politically, socially and mo-