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 great student : published a Mahratti dictionary : wrote on questions connected with languages and mythology, and on military law, e.g. the Ancient Chronology and History of Persia; Researches into the Origin and Affinity of the Principal Languages of Asia and Europe; also on Ancient and Hindu Mythology, 1831; on the Vedanta Philosophy of the Hindus, and on Muhammadan Law : an active member of the Bombay Literary Society : for some time its President : died at Bombay, Dec. 29, 1846.  KER, ROBERT (1776P–1819)

Son of Ker of Kersfield in Peebles : to India in the B.C.S., 1791 : Collector of Chittagong about 1798 : Judge-Collector of Cuttack : Judge of Bareli : and of the Sadr Adalat in 1814 : restored order in Cuttack in 1818, after the insurrection there : died off Sagar Island, Dec. 3, 1819, on his way from Cuttack to Bengal.  KERN, JOHN HENRY CASPAR (1833–)

Born April 6, 1833, in Java : son of a Major in the Dutch Indian Army : to Holland, when seven years old : educated at Utrecht and Leiden : studied Sanskrit and Classical Philology : Litter. Doct., 1855 : studied Sanskrit under A. Weber at Berlin : appointed Professor of Greek in the Athenaeum at Maestricht, 1858 : studied in London from 1862 : Sanskrit Professor at Queen's College, Benares, 1863–65 : held the same position at Leiden University, 1865–1903 : great linguist and scholar : noted for his researches into the ancient civilization of India, and of the East Indian archipelago : his chief works on Indian subjects are—his Dutch translation of Kalidas' drama Sdkuntala, 1862; text of Brhat-Samhita by Varaha-Mihira, 1865, followed by English translation, 1870; History of Indian Buddhism in Dutch, 1881, translated into German by Jacobi : English translation of the Saddharma-Pundarika (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxi), 1884 : Manual of Indian Buddhism, 1896, etc. : collaborated in the great Sanskrit Dictionary with Bohtlingk and Roth : Hon. M.R.A.S. : Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam; and of many other learned Societies of different countries.  KERR, FREDERIC WALTER (1867–)

Born May 20, 1867 : son of Admiral Lord Frederic H. Kerr : educated at Charterhouse : joined the Army, 1886 : served as Adjutant Gordon Highlanders in Chitral Relief expedition, 1895 : D.S.O. : Tirah campaign : Dargai, etc., 1897–8 : South African war as Brig-Major, 1900–1901 : Brevet-Major.  KERR, LORD MARK (1817–1900)

Entered the Army at 18 : served in the Crimea : in the Indian mutiny he commanded the 13th Light Infantry, and relieved Azimghar in April, 1858 : in the pursuit of Kooer Singh : wounded at Jagdishpur : in the Trans-Gogra campaign : C.B. : Brig-General at Delhi : commanded the Poona Division, 1874–7 Maj-General, 1868 : General, 1878 G.C.B., 1893 : died May 17, 1900.  KERSHAW, SIR LOUIS ADDIN (1845–1899)

Son of Matthew Kershaw : educated at Bradford and at Pembroke College, Oxford : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1872 : Q.C., 1895 : Revising Barrister in Yorkshire : Chief Justice of the High Court at Allahabad, 1898 : knighted : subsequently Chief Justice of the High Court, Bombay, 1898 : died Feb. 17, 1899.  KETTLE, TILLY (1740–1786)

Artist : born 1740 : son of a house-painter : exhibited portraits at the Free Society of Artists, 1761, and the Society of Artists, 1765 : was in India from 1770 to 1777, and made a fortune, painting portraits, historical and fancy scenes, some of which he sent to be exhibited in England : exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1777–83 : in 1781, a historical piece, "The Mogul of Hindustan reviewing the E. I. Co.'s troops" : became bankrupt : started again for India in 1786, overland : died at Aleppo. His picture of Warren Hastings is in the National Portrait Gallery : F.S.A.  KETTLEWELL, THOMAS (1831–1903)

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