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  Registrar and Secretary to the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, 1865–87 : K.C.B., 1886 : died Oct. 27, 1889.

HUTTON, JAMES (1818–1893)

Entered the E. I. Co.'s military service : left the Army after a few years : edited newspapers in India—the Delhi Gazetteer, the Bengal Harkaru, the Englishman, the Madras Times : returned to England : became joint, and, later, sole editor of the Leader newspaper : wrote The Aryan and the Cossack, A Hundred Years Ago, and other works : as a journalist and author he advocated the strengthening of the defences on the N.W. frontier : died March, 1893.

HUYSHE, ALFRED (1811–1880)

General : educated at Addiscombe : joined the Bengal Artillery in 1827 : served in the Gwalior campaign of 1843 : in the Panjab campaign of 1848–9 : commanded a battery at Sadulapur, Chilianwala and Gujarat : Brevet-Major : after the annexation of the Panjab, was in several expeditions on the Peshawar frontier : Inspr-General of Artillery in Bengal for some years : retired as General in 1877 : C.B. : died March 3, 1880.

HYDE, JOHN (1737?–1796)

Called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn : appointed a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, Calcutta, on its establishment, 1774 : was one of the magistrates who, on May 6, 1775, committed Nuncomar (q.v.) to trial for forgery : was one of the Judges who tried Nuncomar. After more than 21 years' uninterrupted service as Judge, he died July 8, 1796, and was buried in Calcutta : a Government notification and lengthy epitaph testified to his virtues and the esteem in which he was held.

HYDERABAD, SIR ASAF JAH, NIZAM-UL-MULK OF (1866–)

Born Aug. 18, 1866 : succeeded his father in 1869, when a Regency was established : he was invested with full power by Lord Ripon, when Viceroy and Governor-General, and assumed charge of his Government, Feb. 5, 1884 : has more than once offered to the Government of India the services of his troops, and in 1887 offered a present of 60 lakhs for frontier defence : he is the Premier Prince of the Indian Empire : G.C.S.I., 1884 : G.C.B., 1903.

HYDERABAD, NIZAM ALI, NIZAM OF ( ? –1803)

Son of Kamaruddin, the first Nizam-ul-Mulk : dethroned and imprisoned his brother, the Nizam Salabat Jang, 1761, and became Nizam : devastated the Carnatic, 1765, but was driven back : the Madras Government made a treaty at Hyderabad, Nov. 12, 1766, through Brig-General Caillaud with Nizam Ali for mutual assistance, and the grant of territory for a subsidiary force. Nizam Ali treacherously deserted the English, and with Hyder Ali invaded the Carnatic, but, by another treaty of Feb. 26, 1768, renounced Hyder and regained the English alliance on certain terms : in 1788 he made over the Guntur Sircar to the English on certain payments : in the war with Tippoo, Nizam Ali made a treaty of offensive and defensive alliance with Cornwallis, 1790, and gained territory at the end of the war, 1792 : the Mahrattas revived a claim against the Nizam for arrears of chout, and war resulted in the defeat of the Nizam and his army at Kurdla in March, 1795 : he had to cede territory and pay three crores of rupees : his eldest son, Ali Jah, rebelled, but was capttured by the Nizam's French troops : another treaty of Sep. 1, 1798, was made between the British and the Nizam : Nazim Ali agreed to disband his French battalions : in the second war with Tippoo, 1799, the Nizam's army cooperated with the British troops, and the Nizam received territories by the partition treaty of Mysore : these territories were ceded to the British for the payment of the British subsidiary force at Hyderabad : Nizam Ali died, 1803.

HYDER ALI (1717 or 1722–1782)

Son of Fatah Muhammad, a military commander, and jagirdar of Budikota in Mysore : born in 1717 or 1722 : first known as Naik : employed by the Mysore Raja as a volunteer in the siege of Devanhalli in 1749 : next against Arcot, and in the subsequent struggle for the Nizamat : by 1755 he was military governor of Dindigul, then a Mysore stronghold : by 1759 he commanded the Mysore Raja's Army, and received the title of Fatah