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 HOWDEN, JOHN FRANCIS CARADOC, FIRST BARON (1762–1839)

Born Aug. 12, 1762 : son of the Right Rev. John Cradock, Archbishop of Dublin : entered the Cavalry : 1777, Lt-Colonel of the 13th regt., 1789 : served in the W. Indies, 1790 and 1793–5 : Maj-General, 1798 : was Q.M.G. in Ireland under Lord Cornwallis during the rebellion of 1798 : was M.P. in the Irish Parliament, 1785–1900 : on the Staff of Sir Ralph Abercromby in the Mediterranean and Egypt : Knight of the Bath, 1803 : C. in C. at Madras, 1804–7, and Lt-General : during his tenure of office the mutiny at Vellore occurred, 1806 : which he attributed to efforts to restore the Muhammadan cause, while it was also ascribed to orders issued about uniform : recalled in 1807 : commanded the forces in Portugal, 1808 : Governor of Gibraltar, 1809 : C. in C. at the Cape, 1811–14 : General, 1812 : made Lord Howden in the Irish Peerage, 1819 : changed his name to Caradoc, 1820 : made an English Peer, 1831 : died July 6, 1839.

HOWELL, MORTIMER SLOPER (1841–)

I.C.S. : born Feb. 3, 1841 : son of John Warren Howell : educated at Christ's Hospital and Corpus Christi College, Oxford : Fellow of the Universities of Calcutta and Allahabad : LL.D., Edinburgh : entered the Indian Civil Service, 1862, and retired in 1896, as Judicial Commissioner of Oudh : author of Grammar of the Classical Arabic Languages : C.I.E., 1886.

HOWLETT, SIR ARTHUR (1819–1904)

General : entered the Indian Army in 1838 : joined the 27th Madjras N.I. in 1839 : saw much service in the Indian mutiny at Cawnpur, Lucknow, Tulsipur, Bansi, in Bundelkund, in the Sagar Field Division : Madras Staff Corps, 1861 : C.B., 1873 : Maj-General, 1881 : General, 1889 : K.C.B., 1896 : died at Upper Norwood, July 31, 1904.

HUDLESTON, WILLIAM ( ? –1894)

I.C.S. : educated at Haileybury, 1843–44 : went out to Madras, 1845 : became Secretary to Government, Madras, in the Revenue Department, 1870 : and Chief Secretary, 1875 : Member of Council, temporary, in 1873, and from June, 1877, to June, 1882 : acted as Governor of Madras, May 24, to Nov. 5, 1881 : died Oct. 25, 1894.

HUDSON, SIR JOHN (1833–1893)

Born June 30, 1833 : son of Captain John Hudson, R.N. : educated at the Royal Naval School, New Cross : entered the 64th regt. in 1853 : Adjutant in the Persian war, 1856–7 : present in all the engagements : in the mutiny was Adjutant with his regt. in Havelock's force, and in his actions from Fatehpur, July 12, to Bithur, Aug. 16 : in the advance to Lucknow, the defence of Cawnpur, the defeat of the Gwalior contingent : and in subsequent engagements : in the Abyssinian campaign, 1867–8 : commanded the 28th Panjab N.I. in the Afghan war of 1878–80 : was in Sir F. Roberts' advance on Kabul, 1879 : in the operations round Kabul, defended the Lataband post : commanded in the Khyber in 1881 : C.B. : commanded the Indian Contingent in the Soudan, 1885 : K.C.B. : Maj-General, 1887 : commanded a Division, 1888–92 : Lt-General : C. in C, Bombay in 1893 : died at Poona, June 9, 1893, instantaneously, from a fall from his horse.

HUDSON, SIR WILLIAM BRERETON (1843–)

An indigo planter in Bihar : commanded the Bihar Light Horse : Member of the Indian Public Service Commission, 1886–7 : K.C.I.E., 1893.

HUGHES, CHARLES FREDERICK (1844–)

Born 1844 : son of W. S. P. Hughes : educated at Cheltenham and Addiscombe : entered the Bombay Army, 1861, and became Colonel, 1889 : served against Fudhli Arabs, 1865–6 : in the Afghan war, 1878–80 : present at Ahmad Kheyl, Brevet-Major : Burmese war, 1886–7 : Commissary-General of Bombay, Madras and Bengal Armies in succession, 1890–5 : C.B., 1897.

HUGHES, SIR EDWARD (1720?–1794)

Born about 1720 : entered the Navy, 1734–5; was at Porto Bello, 1739 : Cartagena, 1741 : Toulon, 1743–4 : America and the W. Indies : Captain, 1747–8 : at Louisberg, 1758 : Quebec, 1759 : Naval<section end="Hughes, Sir Edward" />