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 attached to the Light Brigade, commanded the Pioneer Corps, the 57th N.I., and the 44th N.I. successively : Adjutant-General of General Stevenson's force in the Shekhawati campaign : D.A.G. : commanded the Oudh Contingent as Brigadier : Inspecting Officer of all the Contingents : as a Lt-Colonel and Brigadier commanded Shah Shuja's army : in the retreat from Kabul was killed at Jagdalak on Jan. 12, 1842.  ANQUETIL DU PERRON, ABRAHAM HYACINTHE (1731–1805)

Brother of L. P. Hyacinthe, the French historian : born at Paris in 1731 : being bent on studying Oriental languages, he went to India as a private soldier in 1754, and acquired considerable knowledge of Sanskrit, translating a dictionary in that language : on the taking of Pondicherry by the English he returned to Europe and conveyed his MSS. to Paris, where he was appointed Oriental interpreter to the King's Library : was Member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, and the National Institute, and one of the most celebrated of the literati of Europe : he died Jan. 17, 1805.  ANSON, HON. AUGUSTUS HENRY ARCHIBALD (1835–771877 [sic])

Younger brother of the Earl of Lichfield : born 1835 : entered the Army 1853, in the Rifle Brigade : in the Crimea : joined the 84th regt. : in the mutiny, was A.D.C. to Sir J. Hope Grant : wounded at the siege of Delhi : at Bulandshahr deserved his V.C, and gained it as a Captain at the capture of the Sikandarbagh on Sir Colin Campbell's relief of Lucknow, Nov. 16, 1857 : died Nov. 17, 1877.  ANSON, HON. GEORGE (1797–1857)

General : second son of the first Viscount Anson : served at Waterloo in the Guards : was M.P. from 1818 for many years : in 1853, appointed to command a Division in India : C. in C. Madras, 1854, and C. in C. in India, 1856 : was at Simla when the mutiny broke out in May, 1857, and hastened down to the plains : while on the march from Umbala to Delhi with a force, he died of cholera at Karnal, May 27, 1857.  ANSTEY, THOMAS CHISHOLM (1816–1873)

Barrister and political writer : born in London, 1816 : educated at Wellington and University College, London : called to the bar at the Middle Temple, 1839 : became, in the Oxford movement, a Roman Catholic, and Professor of Law at the Roman Catholic College near Bath : wrote on legal and political subjects : was M.P. for Youghal 1847–52, when his excessive speaking in Parliament was much resented : appointed Attorney General at Hongkong, 1854, but was suspended by the Governor, Sir John Bowring, in 1858 : after a short time at Calcutta, he was very successful at the Bombay bar, and in 1865 acted for a few months as a Judge of the High Court : failing to obtain work at the English bar, he returned to Bombay and died there, Aug 17, 1873 : his violent temper stood in his way through life, leading him into constant quarrels with his profession and society.  ANSTRUTHER, SIR ALEXANDER (1769–1819)

Judge : son of Sir R. Anstruther, Bart : born Sep. 10, 1769 : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and published legal reports : was Advocate-General, Madras, 1803 : Recorder of Bombay, 1812 : knighted : died July 16, 1819.  ANSTRUTHER, SIR JOHN (1753–1811)

Chief Justice : born March 27, 1753 : son of Sir John Anstruther, Bart : educated at Glasgow : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1779 ' was M.P. for Cocker-mouth, 1790–96 : supported C. J. Fox, and was one of the managers of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, having to speak on certain of the charges : in 1797, appointed Chief Justice of Bengal, made a Baronet, and retired to England, 1806 : Privy Councillor : re-entered Parliament : died in London, Jan. 26, 1811.  APPA SAHIB ( ? –1840)

Raja of Nagpur : when Regent, in 1816, he put to death his cousin, Parsoram, or Parsoji, Bhonsla, an idiot Raja of Nagpur, and succeeded the late Raja's uncle, Raghoji Bhonsla II (q.v.) as Raja : Baji Rao appointed him nominal C. in C. of the<section end="Appa Sahib" />