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 and the Governor Drake and others retreated down the river on 19th, Holwell was called on to take charge of the defence. He was one of the 23 survivors of the 146 persons in the Black Hole on the night of June 20-1 : was sent to Murshidabad and kept in irons there : set at liberty, July 17 : joined the ships at Fulta : went to England in Feb. 1757 : returned to Bengal : in the Council : succeeded Clive as temporary Governor of Bengal from Jan. 28, 1760, until Vansittart assumed office on July 27, 1760. In 1761 he and others were dismissed by the Court of Directors for signing a despatch remonstrating against Vansittart's appointment, but he had retired in Sep. 1760 : in retirement, he wrote on historical, philosophical and social science subjects : also his Narrative of the Black Hole, Interesting Historical Events relative to the Province of Bengal and the Empire of Hindustan, 1765–71; Indian Tracts, 1758, 1774, and other works, showing his knowledge of the religion and customs of the Hindus. He erected, at the N.E. corner of Dalhousie Square, Calcutta, a monument to those who died in the Black Hole : this monument was removed in 1819 : re-erected in 1902 : Holwell died at Pinner, Nov. 5, 1798.

HOME, SIR ANTHONY DICKSON (1823— )

Born 1823 : entered the Army Medical Department, 1848, and retired, 1886 : served in the Crimea, 1854–5 : Indian mutiny, 1857–8 : gained the V.C. on Sep. 26, 1857, at the first relief of Lucknow : China, 1860 : New Zealand, 1863–5 : Ashanti, 1873–4 : P.M.O. : Cyprus, 1878–9 : P.M.O. : Surgeon- General to the Forces in India, 1881–5 : K.C.B., 1874. a breaching battery : ordered to blow in the Kashmir gate on Sep. 14, 1857 : escaped being wounded : gained the V.C. : blew in the gate of the Palace : was field engineer to Greathed's column : was at Bulandshahr : killed by accident at the blowing up of the Malaghar fort, Oct. 1, 1857.

HOME, FREDERIC JERVIS (1839–)

Born Oct. 22, 1839 : son of Maj-General Richard Home, Bengal Army : educated at Kensington Grammar School and Addiscombe : joined the Bengal Engineers, 1858, and landed in India, 1860 : in the Irrigation Branch of P.W.D., 1861–94 : Inspr-General of Irrigation and Deputy Secretary, P.W.D., India, 1890–4 : C.S.I., 1892: Colonel.

HOME, ROBERT (1764?–1834)

Artist : son of Robert Boyne Home : from 1770 exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy and at Dublin : went to Madras in 1790 : with Lord Cornwallis' Army before Seringapatam, 1791–2 : went to Calcutta, 1792 : at Lucknow he was chief painter to the King of Oudh for some years, and made a large fortune : he returned to Calcutta in 1797 and died there about 1834 : was Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1802, and painted for it. Indian pictures by Home were exhibited at the Academy : he published Select Views in Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, and A Description of Seringapatam, the Capital of Tippoo Sultan, illustrated : he painted in India pictures of Marquis Wellesley and Colonel Arthur Wellesley, Bishop Heber and Dr. Carey.

HOME, DUNCAN CHARLES (1828–1857)

Son of Maj-General Richard Home, Bengal Army : born 1828 : educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, at Wimbledon and Addiscombe, 1845–6 : after the course at Chatham, went to Bengal, 1848 : at the siege of Multan, and at Gujarat : employed on the Ganges Canal construction, and at Madhupur in charge of a division of the Bari Doab Canal : commanded several companies of Muzbi Sikhs at the siege of Delhi : had charge of a breaching battery : ordered to blow in the kashmir gate on Sep. 14, 1857 : escaped being wounded : gained the V.C. : blew in the gate of the Palace : was field engineer to Greathed's column : was at Bulandshahr : killed by accident at the blowing up of the Malaghar fort, Oct. I, 1857.

HONNER, SIR ROBERT WILLIAM (1800?–1869?)

Son of a military officer : born about 1800 : entered the Army, 1821 : nearly 20 years a subaltern, 17 years Adjutant of his regt. : as Brevet-Major commanded the 4th Bombay N.I. at 27 years' service : served in Mahi Kanta against the Bhils, 1823 : with the Field Force in 1824 in the Meena Hills, and against various predatory tribes : with the Bombay column in the Panjab campaign, 1848–9 : at the capture of Multan : Brevet-Lt-Colonel : 