Page:Dictionary of Indian Biography.djvu/122

 DALHOFF, RIGHT REV. THEODORE, D.D. (1837–)

Second Catholic Archbishop of Bombay : a German, born in Westphalia, April 20, 1837 : entered the Society of Jesus, April 14, 1859 : arrived in India, Jan. 28, 1866 : ordained priest, Dec. 25, 1868 : held several posts of Superiorship at Bandora, St. Xavier's College, Bombay, and St. vincent's High School, Poona : as Vicar-General, on the death of Arch-bishop Porter, administered the diocese : Archbishop of Bombay, Dec. 6, 1891 : consecrated in Bombay Cathedral, Jan. 31, 1892 : in 1891 visited Europe, and again in 1895; built the Church of the Holy Name, Bombay (opened Jan. 15, 1905), with Archiepiscopal Residence and Convent School attached : is proprietor of the Bombay Catholic Examiner (now called the Examiner), a weekly religious paper of wide circulation, now in its fifty-fifth year : still at work in his 69th year.  DALHOUSIE, GEORGE RAMSAY, NINTH EARL OF (1770–1838)

General : son of the eighth Earl : born in 1770, entered the Army in the Dragoon Guards in 1789, was in several regiments : became Maj-General in 1805, Lt-General, 1813 : G.C.B. : General, 1830 : served at Martinique, 1792 : in the Irish rebellion of 1798 : in Holland, Egypt, the Peninsula and France : created Baron Dalhousie in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in Aug. 1815 : Lt-Governor of Nova Scotia, 1816 : Captain-General and Governor of Canada, Nova Scotia, etc., 1819–28 : and commanded the forces from 1819 : was C. in C. in the East Indies, 1829–32 : father of the first Marquis of Dalhousie (q.v.) : died March 21, 1838.  DALHOUSIE, JAMES ANDREW BROWN-RAMSAY, FIRST MARQUIS OF (1812–1860) Governor-General : third son of the ninth Earl, C. in C. in India (q.v.) : born April 22, 1812 : educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford : M.P. for Haddingtonshire, 1837 : succeeded his father, March, 1838 : Vice-President of the Board of Trade in Peel's administration, 1843 : Privy Councillor, 1843 : President of the Board and in the Cabinet, 1845 : declined a seat in the Cabinet offered him in July, 1846, by Lord John Russell, who appointed him Governor-General of India in 1847 : assumed office, Jan. 12, 1848. After the rebellion of Mulraj at Multan, the second Sikh war broke out : Dalhousie went up to the Panjab-Satlaj frontier and supervised the operations : annexed the Panjab in March, 1849 : was made a Marquis : made Sir Henry Lawrence President of the Board of administration, and, in 1853, made Sir John Lawrence Chief Commissioner of the Panjab : his controversy with Sir C. J. Napier, the C. in C, regarding certain new regulations affecting the grant to the Sepoys of compensation for dearness of provisions, led to the latter's resignation. Dalhousie's internal administration of the country was thorough and comprehensive : he introduced and laid down a system for the construction of railways; joined the provinces by telegraphs; organized the imperial postal system; created the Departments of Public works. Jails, Forests, Survey, and Education; dealt with the strength and composition of the Army in India; reorganized and expanded the Legislative Council; created a separate Lieutenant-Governorship of Lower Bengal (to relieve the Governor-General of his direct personal charge of that Province) : he declared war on the King of Burma in 1852, and supervised it himself, visiting the country and annexing Pegu : made treaties with the Khan of Kelat and Amir of Afghanistan : the Berars were assigned for the payment of the Hyderabad debts. Dalhousie has been blamed for the annexation of Satara, Nagpur, Tanjore, Jhansi, Oudh, for reducing the title of the Nawab of the Carnatic to Prince of Arcot, for terminating the ex-Peshwa's pension the fact is, that where annexations were effected, according to the doctrine of lapse, i.e. on the failure of natural heirs, that policy was not Dalhousie's, but a policy which had been previously declared and acted upon and was, in each case, sanctioned by higher authority : in the case of Oudh, he personally was opposed to annexation, but his Council advocated it and the authorities in England ordered it, on account of the continued maladministration by the King, after repeated warnings : Dalhousie restricted the application of the doctrine of lapse to cases of Hindu dependent states. He was also