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 and became General, 1891 : served in Crimean war : Indian mutiny : China, 1864 : Suakim expedition, 1885 : Commandant of School of Military Engineering, 1885–8 commanded the troops in China, 1889–90 M.P. for Hythe, 1895–9 : C.B., 1877 K.C.M.G., 1891.

EDWARDS, JOHN BURNARD (1857–)

Born May 6, 1857 : son of R. M. Edwards, B.C.S.: educated at Haileybury and Sandhurst : entered the Army 1878, and became Major 1898 : served in Afghan war, 1878–80, Chitral Relief Force, 1895 : in charge of Gwalior Imperial Service Transport Corps : D.S.O. : Inspecting Officer of Imperial Service Cavalry in Central India, 1891–6 : second in command 1st regt. Central India Horse.

EGERTON, CHARLES CHANDLER (1798–1885)

Born April, 1798 : his father was a clergyman : educated for the medical profession at St. Thomas' and Guy's hospitals : F.C.S., 1819 : entered the E. I. Co.'s medical service in 1823 as an oculist to deal with a special epidemic: oculist at the Eye Hospital, and first Surgeon at the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta : left India 1847 : died May, 1885.

EGERTON, SIR CHARLES COMYN (1848–)

Born 1848 : educated at Rossall : entered the Army, 1867, and became Colonel, 1895 : served in the Afghan war, 1879–80 : Hazara expedition, 1888 : Miranzai expedition : severely wounded : Brevet-Lt-Colonel, and D.S.O. : Waziristan Field Force, 1894–5 : C.B. : Dongola expedition : commanded Tochi Field Force, 1897–8 : K.C.B., 1903 : commanded the Somaliland Force from 1903.

EGERTON, PHILIP HENRY (1824–1893)

I.C.S. : son of William Egerton (of the B.C.S., 1792–1820) : born Aug. 9, 1824 : educated at the Naval and Military Academy, Edinburgh : R.M. College, Sandhurst, and Haileybury, 1840–2 : went to India, 1842 : served in the N.W.P. to 1850 : Magte-Collr. of Delhi, 1855–9, but was on leave during the siege in 1857 and could not rejoin till Oct., when he vigorously restored order in the city and district. Commissioner of Umritsar, 1859, and of Rawul Pindi, 1868 : retired, 1872 : wrote Journal of a Tour through Spiti, 1864 : died Jan. 17, 1893.

EGERTON, SIR ROBERT EYLES (1827–)

I.C.S. : son of William Egerton : born 1827 : educated at Exeter College, Oxford and Haileybury, 1847–9 : served in India, 1849–82 : Deputy Commissioner of Lahore in the mutiny : Commissioner of Nagpur, 1869 : Financial Commissioner of the Panjab, 1871 : Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Coimcil, 1871–4 : Lieutenant Governor of the Panjab, 1778–82 : K.C.S.I., 1879 : C.I.E. : J. P. : D.L.

ELERS, GEORGE (1777–1842)

Partly of German parentage : obtained a commission in the 12th regt. : arrived in Madras, 1797 : served against Tippoo, but was ill at Vellore during the siege of Seringapatam : accompanied Col. Wellesley to Coorg and stayed with him at Seringapatam as his guest for three months. His Memoirs were edited from the orginal MS. by Lord Monson and George Leveson-Gower and published in 1903.

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, JAMES BRUCE, EIGHTH EARL OF (1811–1863)

(Twelfth Earl of Kincardine) : born July 20, 1811 : educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford : Fellow of Merton College, 1832 : M.P. for Southampton, 1841 : succeeded his father in 1841 : was made Governor of Jamaica, 1842, and, in 1846, Governor-General of Canada—an appointment fraught with difficulties—which he retained till 1854 : for his services he was raised to the English peerage. In 1857 he was sent to China as special envoy : on his way there, he, at Lord Canning's request, diverted to India, troops intended for China, which were urgently required for the suppression of the Indian mutiny. He made the Tientsin Treaty with China, securing several important objects. In 1859 he became Postmater-General in Lord Palmerston's Government. In 1860 he was again sent to China to obtain the ratification of the Tientsin treaty, which had not been carried out. He destroyed the Summer Palace, as a pinishment for<section end="Elgin and Kincardine, James Bruce, eight Earl of" />