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 M.P. for Sudbury for 23 years, and engaged in various matters of politics and public affairs : Baronet in 1796 : died May 3, 1825.

HIRST, REV. WILLIAM (? –1769?)

Son of William Hirst, D.D. : educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge : F.R.S., 1755 : was appointed a Navy chaplain : present at the sieges of Pondicherry and Vellore : in June, 1761, observed the transit of Venus at Madras : was Chaplain at Calcutta, 1762–4 : observed an Earthquake and two eclipses : reported on transit of Venus of June, 1769 : went out to India, 1769, as Chaplain to Vansittart and other Commissioners of the E.I. Co. : all drowned at sea after passing the Cape outwards in Dec. 1769.

HIRST, W. A. (1870–)

Born 1870 : son of Alfred Hirst : educated at Clifton and Worcester College, Oxford : joined the Indian Educational Department, 1894 : Professor of History, Lahore College, 1895–6 : First Professor, Meerut College, 1896–1902 : Principal of Gujarat College, Ahmedabad, 1902 : author of Survey of Ethics, 1902.

HISLOP, STEPHEN (1817–1863)

Born Sep. 8, 1817 : son of Stephen Hislop, a mason : educated at Duns, Edinburgh University, Glasgow, and in divinity under Chalmers at Edinburgh : joined the Free Church of Scotland, 1843 : went out to India in 1844 as a missionary of the Free Church to Bombay : stationed at Sitabaldi, near Nagpur, in the Central Provinces : and opened a school at Nagpur : through a warning from a native friend, he was able to save the lives of the Europeans there in the mutiny of 1857. He was drowned in trying to cross a swollen river, while on tour with the Chief Commissioner, Sir R. Temple, Sep. 4, 1863 : he had much ability, not only for his own work, but also in languages, philology, antiquarian research, geology, natural history, botany, zoology, entomology, and conchology. Sir R. Temple edited his Papers relating to the Aboriginal Tribes of the Central Provinces,—the Gonds, and others.

HISLOP, SIR THOMAS, BARONET (1764–1843)

Born July 5, 1764 : son of Lt-Colonel William Hislop, R.A. : educated at the R.M.A., Woolwich : entered the 39th regt. in 1778 : in the siege of Gibraltar, 1779–83 : served in Corsica : commanded his regt. in the W. Indies, 1796 : commanded the captured Dutch colonies for six years : Lt-Governor of Trinidad, 1803–11 : at the capture of Guadeloupe, 1810 : appointed C. in C, Bombay, 1812 : but was captured by an American ship and returned home : C. in C. at Madras, 1814–20 : Baronet : K.C.B., 1814 : commanded the Army of the Dekkan in the Mahratta war, 1817–8 : defeated the Mahrattas under Holkar at Mahidpur, Dec. 21, 1817 : was blamed for his severity in executing the Mahratta Governor of the fort at Talner : the booty acquired by the Dekkan Army was, after litigation, shared by the Army of Upper India : G.C.B., 1818 : died May 3, 1843.

HOBART, VERE HENRY, BARON (1818–1875)

Governor : son of the Hon. and Rev. Augustus Edward Hobart, sixth Earl of Buckinghamshire : born Dec. 8, 1818 : educated at Cheam, Surrey; Trinity College, Oxford (Scholar) : was a clerk in the Board of Trade, 1840–61 : went to Brazil as Secretary to a diplomatic mission : Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and at the Home Office : sent to investigate the condition of the Turkish finances, and became Director-General of the Ottoman Bank : was Governor of Madras from May, 1872, until his death from typhoid at Madras on April 27, 1873. He promoted education, and the demand for a harbour and better drainage : he wrote on political questions : a collection of his Essays and Miscellaneous Writings was brought out by his widow.

HOBHOUSE, ARTHUR, FIRST BARON (1819–1904)

Born Nov. 10, 1819 : son of Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse : educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford : 1st class Classics, 1840 : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1845 : Q.C., 1862 : Charity Commissioner, 1866 : Endowed Schools Commissioner, 1869 : Legal Member of the