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 GREY, LEOPOLD JOHN HERBERT (1840– )

Born July I, 1840 : son of L. J. H. Grey : educated at Cheltenham : joined the Bengal Army, 1857 : served with Panjab Frontier Force on the N.W. Frontier, 1857–62 : Bhutan campaign, 1865–6, as Political Officer : Commissioner of Hissar Division, 1882 : retired, 1894 : re-employed as Superintendent of the Bahawalpur State, 1899–1902 : C.S.I., 1877.

GREY, SIR WILLIAM (1818–1878)

Born 1818 : son of Edward Grey, Bishop of Hereford, and grandson of first Earl Grey : was at Christ Church, Oxford, but left it to enter the War Office : educated at Haileybury : went to India in 1840 : Private Secretary to Sir Herbert Maddock, Deputy Governor of Bengal, 1845–7 : served in the Bengal Secretariat, and in the Secretariat of the Government of India, in the Home and Foreign Departments : Secretary to the Bank of Bengal, 1851–4 : Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 1854–7 : Director General of the Post Office : Secretary to the Home Department, 1859 : Member of the Governor-General's Supreme Council, from April, 1862, to April, 1867 : had considerable difference of opinion with Sir John Lawrence, the Governor-General. When discussions arose after the Orissa famine, he opposed the proposed abolition of the Bengal Legislative Council, and, instead of any reduction in the status of the Bengal Government, advocated its assimilation to the Governments of Madras and Bombay. He held strong opinions about taxation, and his views did not agree with those of Lord Mayo : K. C.S.I, in 1871 : retired on March I, 1871 : Governor of Jamaica, 1874–7 : died May 15, 1878.

GRIERSON, GEORGE ABRAHAM (1851–)

I.C.S. : born Jan. 7, 1851 : son of George Abraham Grierson, LL.D., Queen's Printer for Ireland : educated at St. Bee's School, Shrewsbury ; Trinity College, Dublin (Exhibitioner) : went out to Bengal, 1873 : Inspector of Schools, Bihar, 1880 : Additional Commissioner of Patna, and Opium Agent, Bihar, 1896 : in charge of the Linguistic Survey with the Government of India, 1898–1902 : retired, 1902 : C.I.E., 1894 : Ph.D. (Halle) 1894 : D. Litt. of Trin. Coll., Dublin, 1902 : Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Folklore, and other Societies. His principal writings are ''Introduction to the Maithili Language, A Handbook to the Kaithi Character, Seven Grammars of the Bihari Dialects, Bihar Peasant Life, The Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan, Notes on Tulsi Das, The Satsaiya of Bihari. Essays on Kashmiri Grammar, The Linguistic Survey of India, The Languages of India : the Chapters on Vernacular Languages and Vernacular Literatures in the forthcoming edition of the Imperial Gazetteer''.

GRIESBACH, CHARLES LUDOLF (1847–)

Born Dec. 11, 1847 : son of G. L. Griesbach of Zobelsberg : educated at Vienna University : Member of ten Scientific Societies : joined the Royal Fusiliers, 1874 : and Geological Survey of India, 1878 : on special service during the Afghan war : present at Maiwand, July 27, 1880 : siege and battle of Kandahar, 1880 : Afghan Boundary Commission, 1884–6 : C.I.E. : on special duty with H.H. the Amir, in Afghanistan, 1888–9 : Miranzai expedition, 1890–1 : Burma, 1892 : S. Africa, 1896–7 : Director of the Geological Survey of India : retired.

GRIFFIES- WILLIAMS, SIR W. L., BARONET (1800–1877)

Son of Sir George Griffies- Williams, Bart. : born in 1800 : entered the Indian Army, 1819 : served in the first Burmese war, 1824–6 : at the siege and storming of Punnullah and capture of Munnohur, 1844–5 : in the second Burmese war, 1852 : became Baronet in 1870 : died May 23, 1877.

GRIFFIN, SIR LEPEL HENRY (1840–)

I.C.S. : born 1840 : joined the Civil Service in the Panjab, 1860 : Chief Secretary to the Panjab Government, 1870 : Chief Political Officer in Afghanistan, 1880 : negotiated with Abdur Rahman (q.v.), who became Amir of Afghanistan : Resident at Indore : Agent to the Governor-General for Central India, 1881–8 : retired, 1889 : Chairman of East India Association : author of The Panjab Chiefs, 1865; The Law of Inheritance in Chiefships,