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  of Sir W. Macnaghten's escort at Kabul, when he was killed, fighting in the Kohistan under Sir R. Sale, on Sep. 29, 1840 : he had written papers for the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

CONOLLY, HENRY VALENTINE (1806–1855)

I.C.S. : brother of Arthur Conolly (q.v.) : educated at Rugby, went to Madras, 1824 : served in Bellary, and for many years as District Officer of the Malabar district : he was murdered in his own house by Moplah fanatics on Sep. 11, 1855 : he had been nominated to be provisional Member of Council, Madras.

CONRAN, HENRY (1738–1810)

Major : served in the American war, 1755–6 : under Wolfe, at Quebec, in 1759 : returned to England and retired as Major about 1780 : went to India by way of Aleppo and the desert with a packet from the Court of Directors to the Bengal Government : appointed to the Staff of Warren Hastings, on whose retirement, in 1785, Conran remained in Calcutta and died there. May 15, 1810.

CONWAY, THOMAS HENRY SOMERSET ( ? –1837)

Brig-General entered the E. I. Co.'s military service in 1793 : reached Madras, 1795 : in the expedition to Ceylon, 1796 : in that to Manilla, 1797 : in several campaigns : in Mysore, 1799 : in the Ceded Districts, 1801–2 : Mahratta war, 1803–6 : under Sir T. Hislop, 1815 : in the Pindari war, 1817–8 : Adjutant-General of the Madras Army, from 1809 : C.B., 1819 : employed on a military mission to Bengal, 1828–30 : appointed to command the Hyderabad Subsidiary Force : died of cholera. May 14, 1837.

COOCH BEHAR, MAHARAJA SIR NRIPENDRA BHUP BAHADUR OF (1862–)

Born Oct. 4,1862 : succeeded his father in 1863, the State being under official management during his minority : edutaced at the Wards' Institute, Benares, and at Bankipur, Patna : Maharaja Bahadur, 1880 : installed in 1883 as a Ruling Chief : G.C.I.E., 1887 : Hony. Lt-Colonel of the 6th Bengal Cavalry : through the Tirah campaign on the Staff of General Yeatman-Briggs : present at Dargai and Samana : C.B., 1898 : Hony. A.D.C to H.M. the King : married in 1878 the daughter of Keshab Chandra Sen (q.v.). The Maharaja has visited England several times : he is a keen sportsman and has excelled in polo, tennis, and other games. The Maharani Sunity Devi has been a Member of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India since 1887.

COOKE, EDWARD (1772–1799)

Son of Colonel Cooke : became a Captain in the Royal Navy : appointed to the Syhille in 1795, served in her at the Cape, and in the East Indies : off the Sandheads, in the Bay of Bengal, the Sybille fought between 9 p.m. on Feb. 28, 1799, and 2.30 a.m. on March 1, the French ship Forte, a much larger and better armed frigate, and captured her in the Balasore roads, 150 of the Forte's men being killed and wounded. Cooke received very severe wounds, of which he died at Calcutta, May 23, 1799. The E.I. Co. erected a monument to him in the South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.

COOKE, THEODORE (1836–)

Born 1836 : son of Rev. John Cooke, Rector of Ardinan, Co. Tipperary : educated at Dublin University, highly distinguished : went to India as Engineer of the Bombay-Baroda line, 1860 : erected the Bassein bridge, 1865 : Principal of Civil Engineering College at Poona, 1865 : acted as Director of Public Instruction in Bombay : Director of Botanical Survey of Western India, and Director of Agriculture : Fellow of the Bombay University : retired in 1893, and was Sub-Director of the Imperial Institute : author of Manual of Heat, Manual of Geology, Flora of Bombay Presidency : C.I.E. in 1891.

COOPER, MANACKJI BEJONJI (1845–1904)

Born Sep. 15, 1845 : educated at Sir Jamsetji Jijibhai's Institution and the Elphinstone College, Bombay : headmaster of the Fort High School, Bombay, for nearly 20 years : the pioneer of higher education by private non-missionary enterprise in Western India. Sir W. W. Hunter, President of the Education Commission of 1882, stated that had there<section end="Cooper, Manackji Bejonji" />