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 EASTWICK, WILLIAM JOSEPH (1808–1889)

Captain : born 1808 : son of Capt. Robert William Eastwick : educated at Winchester : went to India in the Bombay Army, 1826 : served in the Kolapur and S. Mahratta country : in the Political Department : Assistant to Sir H. Pottinger in Sind : negotiated a treaty with the Amirs of Hyderabad, 1839 : secured the freedom of the Indus to commercial enterprise : in the first Afghan war : obtained supplies for Nott at Kandahar, 1841 : to England, 1841, and did not return to India : Director of the E.I. Co., 1846 : Deputy Chairman, 1858 : Member of the Council of India, Sep. 21, 1858 : retired, 1868 : died Feb. 24, 1889.

EDEN, THE HON. SIR ASHLEY (1831–1887)

Indian Civil Service : third son of the third Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and nephew of the Governor-General Lord 'Auckland : born on Nov. 13, 1831 : educated at Rugby, Winchester, and Haileybury : arrived in India in 1852 : distinguished himself in the Sonthal insurrection, 1855 : Secretary to the Bengal Government from 1862–71, and in the Bengal Legislative Council : employed to make a treaty with the Raja of Sikhim in 1861, and as envoy to Bhutan in 1863–4, where he was subjected to gross indignities, and compelled to sign a treaty which the British Government repudiated and declared war on Bhutan. Eden was Chief Commissioner of British Burma, 1871–7, acting, in 1875, as Member of the Supreme Council. He was Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 1877 to 1882, and President of the Army Commission for some months in 1879. In Bengal he exhibited such capacity, and attained such success in his administration, that his retirement was universally deplored, and a statue erected in his honour in Calcutta. He was in the Council of India from 1882 till his death on July 8, 1887. He was made C.S.I, in 1874, and K.C.S.I. in 1878. Though last in his term at Haileybury, he was one of the ablest officers of modern times : his common sense and penetration were combined with fearlessness and force in the statement of his views. EDEN, HON. EMILY (1797–1869)

Daughter of the first Baron Auckland, sister of the second Baron, first Earl (q.v.), whom she accompanied to India, while Governor-General, from 1836 to 1842 : born March 3, 1797 : she published Portraits of the People and Princes of India, 1844, and Up the Country, 1866, and two volumes of her Letters from India were published in 1872 by her niece, Eleanor Eden. She also wrote the novels The Semi-detached House, and The Semi-attached Couple. Her writings contain an interesting account of the social and domestic life of a Governor-General and his household. She died Aug. 5, 1869.

EDGAR, SIR JOHN WARE (1839–1902)

I.C.S. : born Sep. 16, 1839 : arrived in India, in the Indian Civil Service, in Feb. 1862 : did good service in Cachar in connexion with the raids of the Lushai tribes, and accompanied the Lushai expedition of 1871–2, as Political Officer to the Northern Column : as Deputy Commissioner of Darjeeling he paid much attention to Sikhim, Buddhism, and Tibet frontier questions : President of the Bengal Excise Commission, 1881–3 : Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 1887–91 : Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council, Jan., 1892 : retired in April, 1892 : C.S.I, in 1872, and K.C.I.E. in May, 1889 : died at Florence on June 4, 1902 : devoted himself in his later years to historical studies, chiefly on subjects connected with Northern Buddhism and modern Latin Christianity.

EDGE, SIR JOHN (1841–)

Born July 28, 1841 : son of Benjamin Booker Edge, of Clonbrook : educated at Trinity College, Dublin : joined the Irish bar, 1864, and the English bar, from the Middle Temple, 1866 : Chief Justice of High Court, N.W.P., 1886–98 : Bencher of Middle Temple, 1898 : Member of the Council of India, 1898.

EDMONSTONE, SIR GEORGE FREDERICK (1813–1864)

I.C.S. : son of Neil Benjamin Edmonstone (q.v.) : born April, 1813 : educated at Hailebyury, 1829–31 : went to the N.W.P. in 1831 : after the Satlaj campaign of