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 Cambridge : Fellow : joined the Army, 1744 : at Culloden : in Flanders with the Ist Foot-Guards : in 1757 as Lt-Colonel, took the 79th to Madras : in the siege of Fort St. George, 1757–9 : too ill to take command of the troops at Madras in 1759, returned to England : in 1762 commanded, from Madras, the expedition against the Spaniards at Manilla : carried the place by assault : Lieut-Governor of Great Yarmouth : in 1765 Colonel of the 16th foot : knighted in 1766 : had a literary controversy with "Junius," defending the C. in C, the Marquis of Granby : Lt-General in 1777 : Lieutenant-Governor of Minorca in 1779 : in the surrender of Fort St. Philip in 1782 to the French and Spaniards : brought charges of misconduct against Lt-General the Hon. James Murray, the Governor, which he failed to substantiate, so that he was commanded to make an apology : he died Jan. 8, 1787.

DREW, FREDERICK (1836–1891)

Son of John Drew : born Aug. 11, 1836 : educated at the Royal School of Mines, and joined the Geological Survey in 1855. He was employed by the Maharaja of Kashmir, from 1862, to search for minerals and supervise his forest administration, and was Governor of Ladak : retired after 10 years. He was a science master at Eton, 1879–91, and died Oct. 28, 1891. He wrote The Jammu and Kashmir Frontiers, and The Northern Barrier of India : F.G.S. in 1858, and Member of its Council, 1874–6.

DRUMMOND, HON. SIR EDMUND (1813–1895)

I.C.S. : son of sixth Viscount Strathallan : born 1813 : educated at Eton and Haileybury, 1830–1 : went to Bengal in 1833 : Accountant- General, 1856 : Auditor-General, 1860 : Financial Secretary to the Government of India, 1862 : Lieutenant-Governor of the N.W.P. 1863–8 : Member of the Council of India, 1875–85 : K.C.I.E., 1887 : died Jan. 10. 1895.

DRYSDALE, SIR WILLIAM (1819–1900 )

Son of Major James Drysdale : educated at the Military Academy, Edinburgh : joined the 4th Dragoons, 1835 : served in the 9th Lancers, 1841–65 : in the Afghan war, 1859–40 : at Ghazni : in the Gwalior campaign, at Punniar, 1843 : in the Satlaj and Panjab campaigns, 1845–6 and 1848–9 : at Sobraon, Ramnagar, Chilianwala, Gujarat : at the siege of Delhi in the mutiny : in the actions at Bulandshahr, Alighar, Agra : at the relief of Lucknow : Brevets of Major and Lt-Colonel : C.B. : Lt-General, 1881 : K.C.B., 1893 : died Aug. 7, 1900.

DUBOIS, JEAN A. (1765–1848)

Abbe : ordained at 27 in the diocese of Viviers, in 1792 : escaped from the massacres of the French Revolution, and, the same year, leaving France for mission work under the Missions Etrangeres, was first attached to the Pondicherry mission : after Seringapatam, 1799, he was invited to visit it, to reconvert the forced perverts to Islam. He was 31 years in India, living entirely among the people from 17 to 18 years, chiefly in Mysore, where he established, at Sathalli, an agricultural settlement of reconverted Christians. His Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India, and of their Institutions, Religious and Civil, was stated to be "the most correct, comprehensive and minute account extant in any European language of the Hindus" of S. India : the Madras Government bought the MSS. from him in 1806 for 2,000 pagodas : this was translated in London in 1816, and was for long the only published edition : meanwhile, in 1815, the Abbe had revised and amplified his work, but this was not published until 1897. On returning to France in June, 1823, with a pension from the E.I. Co., he published Letters on the State of Christianity in India, containing his conviction that the conversion of the Hindus was impossible. He became a Director, and, from 1836 to 1839, Superior of the Missions Etrangeres at Paris, where he died Feb. 17, 1848.

DUFF, REV. DR. ALEXANDER (1806–1878)

Missionary : son of James Duff : born on April 25, 1806 : educated at Moulin, Kirkmichael, Perth, St. Andrew's University, under Dr. Chalmers : invited by the Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on Foreign Missions to become their first missionary to India : he was ordained in 1829 and went out to Calcutta in 1829–30 he was twice 