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 K.C.B. : Lt-General, 1819 : G.C.B., 1825 : Master-General of the Ordnance and M.P. for Sandwich, 1829 : General, 1837 : C. in C. in India, 1835–9 : objected so strongly to the policy of the first Afghan war that he resigned his appointment, but his resignation was not accepted : his health failing, he resigned again in 1839, and died on the voyage home, off the Azores, on March 24, 1840.

FANE, WALTER (1828–1885)

Son of Rev. Edward Fane : born 1828 : entered the Army, 1845 : in the Panjab Irregular Cavalry, 1849–57 : in several N.W. frontier expeditions : in the pursuit and capture of Tantia Topi, 1859 : Captain, 1860 : in the Madras Staff Corps : Colonel, 1875 : raised a regiment of irregular cavalry for the China war, 1860 : at the Peiho forts : commanded "Fane's Horse" at Sinho, Chinkiawhaw, and the capture of Pekin : C.B. : Maj-General, 1879 : died June 16, 1885.

FANSHAWE, SIR ARTHUR UPTON (1848–)

I.C.S. : son of Rev. J. Fanshawe : educated at Repton : entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1871 : served in the Central Provinces : Postmaster General, Bombay, 1882 : Officiating Secretary in the Finance and Commerce Department to the Government of India, 1888 : Director-General of the Post Office, India, 1889 : C.S.I., 1896 : K.C.I.E., 1903.

FARRUKHABAD, AHMAD KHAN BANGASH, NAWAB OF ( ? –1771)

Son of Muhammad Khan Bangash, Nawab : collected a force of Afghans and defeated and slew the Deputy of the Wazir Safdar Jang, who had confiscated territories belonging to his family, 1750 : the Wazir called in the Mahrattas, which led to his ultimate ruin : reigned till his death in Nov. 1771.

FARQUHAR, JOHN (1761–1826)

Born in 1751 of poor parents in Scotland : went to Bombay in the E.I. Co.'s military service : incapacitated for active service by a wound : transferred to Bengal : became a free merchant and learnt chemistry. Lord Cornwallis employed him to inquire into the circumstances of the Government gunpowder factory at Pulta : made Superintendent of the factory, and, later, sole contractor : thus acquired a fortune : returned to England, and became partner in the agency house, Basset, Farquhar & Co., and in Whitbread's Brewery, He was a curious mixture of penuriousness and largeness in expenditure at his pleasure : bought Fonthill Abbey in 1822 for £330,000 : he was a good scholar, excellent in the sciences, and greatly admired the Brahmanical system : died July 6, 1826, leaving a million and a half.

FAUSBOLL, MICHAEL VIGGO (1821–)

Son of Rev. Christian Nissen Fausboll : born Sep. 22, 1821, in Jutland : educated at a Latin Grammar School, Aarhus, 1834–8 : and at Copenhagen University from 1838, studying Oriental languages under N. L. Westergaard (q.v.) : University Gold Medallist, 1843 : Assistant Librarian at the University Library, Copenhagen, 1861–78 : Professor of Indian Philology and Sanskrit at that University, 1878–1902 : Member of Royal Danish Society of Sciences, 1876 : Bopp's Prizeman, 1888 : Hon. M.R.A.S. 1890 : Commander of the Order of Dannebrog, and possessor of the Silver Cross of that Order : founded the study of Pali in Europe, and was called the "Father of Pali study" : has published the Dhammapadani, 1855 : the Suttanipata, 1-2, 1885–94 : the Jataka, 1-7, 1877–97 : an Indian Mythology according to the Mahabharata, 1902.

FAWCETT, HENRY (1833–1884)

Son of William Fawcett, J.P. : born Aug. 26, 1833 : educated at Alderbury, Queen-wood, King's College, London, Peterhouse and Trinity Hall, Cambridge : seventh Wrangler and Fellow, 1856 : totally lost his sight by an accident out shooting, Sep. 1858 : wrote a Manual of Political Economy, and frequently on political and economic subjects : elected Professor of Pol. Econy. at Cambridge, 1863 : M.P. for Brighton, 1865 and 1868 : for Hackney, 1874 and 1880 : adopted, as a Radical member, an independent line in public measures : for his marked interest in Indian affairs he was known as the "Member for India" : dwelling on the poverty of India, he strenuously advocated economy, justice to the Indian revenues, and the native