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 beyond Bhutan : he was afterwards admitted to the E.I. Co.'s civil service : was District Judge and Agent to the Governor-General at Benares and had an observatory there : as a mathematician and astronomer, he identified astronomical references in Sanskrit works. When Wazir Ali, the deposed Nawab of Oudh, revolted in Jan., 1799, and murdered Mr. Cherry, then the Governor-General's Agent, he afterwards, with a crowd of followers, attacked Davis, who, on Jan. 14, 1799, successfully defended himself and his family, standing at the top of a staircase, pike in hand, until rescued by British troopers. Davis became a Director of the E. I. Co., from 1810 to 1819, and wrote the well-known Fifth Report on the Permanent Settlement : F.R.S. : died June 16, 1819.  DAVISON, SIR HENRY ( ? –1860)

Was a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, Madras, Dec. 1856 : succeeded Sir W. Yardley as Chief Justice, Bombay, in April, 1858 : transferred in April-May, 1859, to be Chief Justice, Madras, in succession to Sir C. Rawlinson : died at Ootacamund, Nov. 3 or 4, 1860.  DAWKINS, SIR CLINTON EDWARD (1859–)

Born 1859 : son of C. G. A. Dawkins of the Foreign Office: educated at Cheltenham and Balliol College, Oxford : entered the India Office, 1884 : Private Secretary to Lord Cross, Secretary of State, 1886, and to Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of Exchequer, 1889 : Under Secretary of State for Finance in Egypt, 1895 : Financial Member of the Supreme Council in India, 1899–1900 : Partner in Messrs. J. S. Morgan & Co. : author of Appendix to Milner's England in Egypt : C.B. in 1901, and K.C.B., 1902.  DAY, FRANCIS (1829–1889)

Son of WilHam Day : born March 2, 1829 : educated at Shrewsbury and St. George's Hospital, London : joined the E.I. Co.'s Medical Service at Madras, 1852 : served in the Burmese war of 1852–54 : Surgeon-Major in 1872 : Deputy Surgeon-General in 1876, when he retired. An eminent naturalist : Ichthyology was the real work of his life : he investigated, for Government, the condition of Indian fisheries : his last appointment was as Inspr-General of Fisheries in India, where he was recognized as the chief authority on Indian fishes and pisciculture. After his retirement, he pursued his studies in the same subject, gaining medals at several exhibitions between 1875 and 1883. He was made C.I.E. in 1885 : LL.D. of Edinburgh in 1889 : F.Z.S., and F.L.S. : was Indian Commissioner at the Fisheries Exhibition, 1883. Collections made by him are at Calcutta, Cambridge, London, etc. He wrote extensively on Fish and Fisheries, in separate works and in contributions to the Journals of learned Societies : wrote The Fishes of India, The Fishes of Malabar, The British and Irish Salmonida, The Fishes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, The Fishes of the Nilgiri Hills and Wynaad, The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland : also. The Land of the Perumals, 1863 : Tropical Fevers, etc. : died July 10, 1889.  DE, REV. LAL BEHARI (1826–1894)

Educated at the General Assembly's Institution, under the Rev. Dr. Duff : at 17 was converted to Christianity : in 1851 authorized to preach, and ordained in 1855 : in 1857 he gave up preaching, and entered the Bengal Educational Department : spent most of his career at Hughli as Professor of History and English Literature : he retired in his 63rd year : died about Oct., 1894 : he wrote against Vedantism and the preaching of Keshab Chandra Sen (q.v.), and conducted a Journal to diffuse Christianity. His novel, Gobinda Samanta, a tale of peasant life in Bengal, and other writings, attracted considerable attention : wrote also Reminiscences of Dr. Duff, 1879.  DEALTRY, THE RIGHT REV. THOMAS, D.D. (1796–1861)

Bishop : born of poor parents in Yorkshire in 1796 : went up to St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, as a pensioner in 1825 : first class in the Law Class List, 1827–8 : LL.B. in 1829 : after being ordained, was a curate at Cambridge and came under the influence of the Rev. C. Simeon, who obtained for him a chaplaincy in the Bengal Establishment. Reaching Calcutta in 1829, he was appointed to the old Mission church, and remained in charge of it till 1835, when he was made Archdeacon