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 EARLE, SIR HENRY, THIRD BARONET (1854–)

Born Aug. 15, 1854 : educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford : entered the Army : served in Jowaki campaign, 1877 : Afghan war, 1878–80 : Egyptian war, 1883 : Burma war, 1886–7 : Tirah, 1897–8 (severely wounded) : South Africa, 1899–1900 (severely wounded) : D.S.O. for services in Burma.

EARLE, WILLIAM (1833–1886)

Son of Sir Hardman Earle, Bart., born May 18, 1833 : educated at Winchester : entered the 49th regt., in 1851 : served with it through the Crimea, exchanged into the Grenadier Guards in 1857 : served at Gibraltar ; in Nova Scotia, as Military Secretary to the General in N. America : Colonel : was Military Secretary to Lord Northbrook when Viceroy and Governor-General, 1872–76 : C.S.I., 1876 : in Egypt in 1882 : in 'command at Alexan- dria : C.B. : and in 1884–85, as Maj-General, commanded the Nile column destined for Khartoum. In an attack on Arabs, entrenched at Kirbekan, he was shot in the forehead and killed, on Feb. 10, 1885.

EAST, SIR EDWARD HYDE BARONET (1764–1847)

Born in Jamaica, Sep. 9, 1764 : called to the bar from the Inner Temple, 1786 : M.P. for Great Malvern : published the Term Reports of cases in the King's Bench for many years, and a work on the Criminal Law : Chief Justice of Bengal from 1813 to 1821 : knighted on appointment : took a leading part in the establishment of the Hindu College at Calcutta : made a Baronet in 1823 : M.P. for Winchester, 1823–30 : member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1833 : member of Council of the Royal Asiatic Society : F.R.S. : bencher of the Inner Temple : died Jan. 8, 1847.

EASTWICK, EDWARD BACKHOUSE (1814–1883)

Born 1814 : son of Capt. Robert William Eastwick : educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford : Postmaster : joined a Bombay N.I. regt., 1836 : early devoted himself to Oriental languages : served in the Political Department in Kattiawar and Sind : did literary work, on the History of the Pars's and a Sindi vocabulary : about 1842 he gave up India, through ill-health : studied at Frankfort and translated Bopp's Comparative Grammar : noticed by H. H. Wilson (q.v.), and appointed Professor of Hindustani at the E.I. College, Haileybury, 1845 : F.R.S., 1851 : Assistant Political Secretary at the India Office, 1859 : called to the bar. Middle Temple, 1860 : Secretary of Legation at Teheran to the Court of Persia, 1860–3 : published The Journal of a Diplomatist : Commissioner for arranging a Venezuelan loan, 1864 and 1867 : Private Secretary to Lord Cranborne (afterwards Marquis of Salisbury) when Secretary of State for India, July, 1866, to March, 1867 : C.B. : M.P. for Penrhyn and Falmouth, 1868–74 : M.A., Oxford, 1875 : translated the Gulisian, the Anwar-i-Suhaili, Prem Sagar, Bagh-o-Bahar, and other works in Oriental languages : made several journeys to India : wrote a Hindustani grammar, Murray's Handbooks for India, accounts of his experiences in Sind, Persia, and Venezuela, and the Kaisarnama-i-Hind (an account of the native states, etc.), and articles in the Encyclopcedia Britannica was F.S.A. : died July 16, 1883.

EASTWICK, ROBERT WILLIAM (1772–1865)

Captain : born June 25, 1772 : educated at Merchant Taylors' school : went to sea, 1784, in the merchant service : pressed into the Navy, 1790 : soon left it : entered the E.I. Co.'s marine service, 1792 : went to Bombay : joined the Indian Service : sailed everywhere in Eastern waters : commanded a ship in 1793 : owned and commanded the Endeavour, which was captured by a French frigate, La Forte, 1799, and rescued by the English man-of-war, La Sybille, on March 1, 1799 : his own ship lost to him : sailed to Bussora, Sumatra, New Holland, Sydney, Norfolk Island, China, Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, to England : several times ship-wrecked, and went through numerous adventures : finished his active career in 1825 : lost his sight in 1832, and was blind for 33 years till his death on Dec. 31, 1865 : "a skilful and fearless sailor" : father of Captain W. J. E. (q.v.) and of E. B. E., (q.v.) : his life is recorded in A Master Mariner, by H. Compton, 1891.