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 the Royal Artillery, 1863 : served in the Abyssinian war, 1868 : Secy, to the Indian Army Commission, 1879 : Afghan war, 1880 : Soudan, 1885 : Secretary to the Government of India, Military Department, 1887–96 : Military Member of Governor-General's Supreme Council, 1896–1901 : C.I.E., 1889 : C.B., 1897 : K.C.I.E., 1893 : G.C.I.E., 1901.

COLLETT, SIR HENRY (1836–1901)

Lt-General : born 1836 : son of the Rev. W. Collett : educated at Tonbridge : entered the Bengal Army in 1855 : saw much service : was in the Sitana campaign under Sydney Cotton, 1858 : in the Oudh campaign in 1858–9 : in the Khasia and Jaintia rebellion, 1862–3 : severely wounded at Oomkrong : in the Abyssinian campaign, 1868 : in the Afghan war, 1878–80 : at Peiwar Kotal, in the Khost valley, the Kabul-Kandahar march and the battle of Kandahar : C.B. : commanded a Brigade in the Burma expedition, 1886–8 : commanded the E. Frontier district with the Chin-Lushai expeditionary force, 1889–90 : commanded the Manipur Field Force, 1891 : K.C.B. : was a botanist with considerable knowledge, and wrote on the flora of Simla : died Dec. 21, 1901.

COLLEY, SIR GEORGE POMEROY (1835–1881 )

Maj-General : son of the Hon. George Francis Colley, who was originally Pomeroy : born Nov. 1835 : educated at the R.M.C. Sandhurst (highly distinguished), joined the 2nd Queen's in 1852 : served at the Cape, and held a Border Magistracy there, 1857–8 : served in China, was at the action of the Taku forts and the advance on Pekin : Brevet-Major, 1863 : entered the Staff College and passed with distinction : appointed Professor there, and wrote articles on the Army in the Encyclopcedia Britannica : in the Ashanti campaign, 1873 : went to Natal on a special mission, to the Transvaal, and Swaziland : was Military Secretary to Lord Lytton when Viceroy and Governor-General of India, 1876–8 : Private Secretary, 1878–80, but during 1879 was Chief on the Staff to Sir Garnet Wolseley in Zululand and the Transvaal, until recalled late in that year to India. He was C.B., 1873 : C.M.G., 1878 : K.C.S.I., 1879. Early in 1880 he was appointed High Commissioner for South Eastern Africa, and Governor and C. in C, Natal : in the fighting with the Boers which ensued, Colley was defeated at Laing's Nek, and was killed in the Boers' attack on Majuba Hill, Feb, 26, 1881. Colley had studied deeply the questions of the Indian frontier and Central Asia, and exercised much influence on the military and political policy of Lord Lytton's administration.

COLLINS, SIR ARTHUR JOHN HAMMOND (1834–)

Son of John Collins : born 1834 : called to the bar from Gray's Inn, 1860 : Q.C. and Bencher, 1877 : also a barrister of the Middle Temple : Recorder of Poole, 1873–9, and of Exeter, 1879–85 : Chief Justice of the High Court, Madras, 1885–99 : knighted, 1885 : Vice-Chancellor of the Madras University, 1889–99.

COLLINS, JOHN ( ? –1807)

Colonel : joined the E. I. Co.'s Bengal Infantry, 1770 : Major in 1794 : appointed Resident at the Court of Daulat Rao Sindia (q.v.), 1795–1803, but, though he had much power over him, failed to dissuade him from fighting against the English : Collins, therefore, in 1803 left Sindia, who was defeated at Assaye and Argaum in that year. Collins was also sent on a mission to Jaipur in 1799. After the Mahratta war, Collins was Resident at Lucknow, at the Court of the Nawab Wazir, and died there June 11, 1807. He was called "King Collins," and is described as "cold, imperious, and over-bearing," so that Metcalfe (q.v.) declined to remain under him.

COLQUHOUN, ARCHIBALD ROSS (1848–)

Son of Dr. Archibald Colquhoun, H.E.I.C.S. : educated at Edinburgh University and abroad : entered the Indian Public Works Department, 1871 : explored from Canton to Bhamo for best railway route between Burma and China, 1881–2 : Deputy Commissioner Upper Burma, 1885–9 : Administrator in Mashonaland, 1890 : retired, 1894 : travelled extensively in Siberia, Mongolia and China, etc., 1900–3 : author of Across Chryse, 1883; Amongst the Shans, 1885; The Key of the Pacific, 1895 ; Russia against