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 interests. Thus, he opposed the charging of the Ball to the Sultan (1867) upon Indian revenues : by his persistence the Committees on Indian finance were appointed 1871–4 : he spoke fully and forcibly on Indian budgets : was a member of the Committee on Indian Public Works, 1878 : opposed the Malta expedition, 1878, and the debit of any of the charge to India : opposed the Afghan war, 1878–80 : wrote on Indian Finance in the Nineteenth Century, 1879 : his views, though contested at the time, since generally accepted : his knowledge and character gained him great respect and influence in Indian affairs : as Postmaster-General, from 1880, effected many administrative improvements : P.C. : F.R.S., 1882 : D.C.L. Oxford, 1881 : Doctor of Political Economy, Wurzburg, 1882 : a corresponding member of the Institute of France, 1884 : LL.D. and Lord Rector of Glasgow University, 1883 : died at Cambridge, Nov. 6, 1884 : a national monument to him placed in Westminster Abbey.

FAY, MRS. ( ? –1817)

Wife of Anthony Fay, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, who went to India to practise in the courts of Calcutta : they travelled via Egypt and the Red Sea : their ship touched at Calicut, where they were seized by Hyder All's officers and imprisoned for 15 weeks, suffering hardships and privations : they escaped and reached Madras in 1779–80, and proceeded to Calcutta. She published an account of her travels from England to Calcutta, Original Letters from India, Calcutta, 1817, dying there during their publication.

FAYRER, SIR JOSEPH, BARONET (1824–)

Born Dec. 6, 1824 : son of Commander Robert J. Fayrer, R.N. : educated at King's College, London and Edinburgh : M.D., 1859 : entered the Bengal medical service, 1850 : served in the first Burmese war, throughout the Indian mutiny, and defence of Lucknow, where he was Residency Surgeon from Aug. 1853 : and Civil Surgeon : Professor, Medical College, Calcutta : Surgeon-General : Fellow of the Calcutta University : President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1867 : C.S.I., 1867 : President, Medical Board, India Office, 1874–95 : accompanied H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh on his Indian tour, 1869–70, and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on his Indian tour, 1875–6 : author of The Thanatophidia of India : of many medical works on Tropical Diseases : Life of Sir Ranald Martin, C.B., Recollections of My Life, etc. : K.C.S.I. : first Baronet, 1896 : Physician Extraordinary to H.M. the King since 1901 : F.R.C.P. : F.R.S. : LL.D., Edinburgh : Member of many foreign Medical Academies : and President and Member of Medical Societies in England.

FEER, HENRI LEON (1830–1902)

Born at Rouen, Nov. 22, 1830 : Professor of Tibetan, 1864, at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and at the Ecole des Langues Orientales, 1865 : Lecturer in Tibetan and Mongol at the College de France, 1869 : Librarian of the MSS. Department of the National Library, Paris, 1872 : and, later, Conservateur-Adjoint : wrote in the learned French Reviews : knew Tibetan, Mongol, Sanskrit and Pali : translated from Tibetan : was learned in Buddhist literature : by his translations, made known the Buddhist literature of Nipal and Tibet : wrote for the Grande Encyclopedie and the Journal Asiatique : edited Pali texts : wrote Textes tires du Kandjour : translated from the Tibetan : Etudes Buddhiques, 1871–85 : Le Thibet, pays, peuple, et religion, 1886 : edited the Samyutta-Nikaya for the Pali Text Society : Member of the Society Asiatique from 1856, of its Council, 1869 : died March, 10, 1902.

FENDALL, JOHN (1762?–1825)

I.C.S. : to India as a writer in 1777 became a Puisne Judge of the Sadr Court Sep. 9, 1817 : Chief Judge, 1819 : Member of the Supreme Council, May 20, 1820 : died Nov. 10. 1825.

FENWICK, GEORGE ROE ( ? –1904)

Major : served in the Crimea : to India as a Captain with his regt., the 93rd Highlanders : contributed to the Englishman in Calcutta : joined its staff as Assistant Editor and Editor, on retiring from the Army : Major in the Calcutta Volunteer Corps, which he resuscitated : went to Simla, and founded the Civil and Military Gazette as a weekly paper : became its-