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 Tibetan, Chinese, Arabic : appointed, 1879, Professor of Pali at the Government High School, Rangoon : investigated the sacred and vernacular literature of Burma : catalogued Pali MSS., and wrote on Burmese law : edited the Tripitaka, or Buddhist Canon : besides his educational work, studied other Burmese vernaculars, Shan, Karen, etc. : wrote on Indo-Chinese languages and Burmese dialects : employed on archaeological investigations and decipherment of ancient inscriptions : made an archaeological survey of Arakan : surveyed the temple ruins of Pagan, 1888 : collected a quantity of MSS., etc. : did good work as antiquarian and philologist in Burma : died April 26, 1890.

FORD, ARTHUR (1834–)

Bom Aug. 15, 1834 : son of ArthurFord : educated at Grosvenor College, Bath, and St. John's College, Cambridge : entered R.A., 1855 : Lt-Colonel, 1881 : Colonel : retired, 1883 : served in the Indian mutiny, 1857–8 : relief, siege and capture of Lucknow : wounded : Assistant Director of Artillery studies at Woolwich, 1870–3 : Inspector of Explosives, Home Office, 1873–99 : C.B., 1895.

FORD, WILLIAM (1821–1905)

I.C.S. : born Nov. 29, 1821 : son of Sir Francis Ford, Bart. : educated at Haileybury : entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1843 : served in the Indian mutiny, in the Gurgaon district : saved a number of Christian fugitives : present at the siege of Delhi; saw service with General Showers : Commissioner of Multan, 1862 : Agent at Bahawalpur, 1866, where he suppressed a mutiny : C.S.I., 1866 : author of several novels, of which the latest is Prince Baber and his Wives : wrote also A Viceroy of India (Lord Lawrence) ; died June 18, 1905.

FORDE, ARTHUR W. ( ?-1883-5 ?)

Was engaged on the construction of Irish railways: went to India, 1855, as Chief Engineer of the B.B. and C.I. Railways : advocated the light railway system for purely agricultural districts, with tramways and feeder lines : wrote a pamphlet "10,000 miles against 5,000," and lectured in Bombay on "Railway Extension in India, with special reference to the export of wheat" : practised as Consulting Engineer in Bombay and other parts of India : was for 7 years Consulting Engineer to the Bombay Municipality : constructed the first wetdock, the Sassoon dock at Colaba, Bombay : engaged on the water-supply and drainage of Bombay : M.I.C.E. : retired, after about 30 years in India, soon after 1880 : died about 1883–5.

FORDE, FRANCIS ( ? –1770)

Colonel : son of Matthew Forde : Captain in the 39th regt., 1746 : Major, 1755 : was repulsed in an attack on Nellore, May, 1757 : joined the E.I. Co.'s Army in Bengal, 1758, as second to Clive : sent by Clive in Oct. 1758, with 500 Europeans and 2,000 sepoys to Vizagapatam, to create a diversion against the French in the Northern Sircars : defeated the Marquis de Conflans (who had replaced Bussy) at Condore, Dec. 1758 : took Rajamundry and Masulipatam in April, 1759 : thus gaining the N. Sircars and expelling the French : defeated the Dutch at Chinsura : went to England with Clive, who was his friend : and, on his recommendation,was one of the Commission of three (with Vansittart and Serafton) sent from England in 1769 to overhaul the Bengal administration : after touching at the Cape in Dec. 1769, their vessel was lost at sea.

FORDYCE, SIR JOHN ( ? –1877)

Lt-General : entered the Bengal Artillery in 1822 : was in the first Burmese war, at the capture of Arakan : in the Satlaj campaign of 1845–6 : at Firozshahr and Sobraon : in the advance on Lahore : in the Panjab campaign of 1848–9, at Chilianwala and Gujarat, in the pursuit of the Sikhs, and of the Afghans to the Khyber : commanded the Artillery in the Yusafzai country in 1849 and at the forcing of the Kohat Pass in 1850 by Sir C. Napier : Colonel Commandant, 1873 : K.C.B., 1877.

FORJETT, CHARLES ( ? –1890)

Deputy, and, later, the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, from 1855, and President of the Board, or Chief Municipal Commissioner of Bombay : his energetic action, in Sep. 1857, stopped a contemplated sepoy outbreak and saved Bombay : his high character, knowledge of