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 the Imperial Press, 1852 : Assistant Secretary, then Secretary, and eventually President of the Societe Asiatique : through this Society he greatly advanced Oriental scholarship : his Annual Reports, delivered from 1840 to 1867, contained reviews of the whole addition to the stock of Oriental learning in Europe for each year, i.e. the progress of Oriental research in the principal Indian languages and other branches of Indian literature. They have been collected and published in 2 volumes. He was indefatigable in promoting discoveries in Mesopotamia, by excavations, explorations, the acquisition, publication and decipherment of newly found inscriptions in the Persian, Median and Babylonian languages : announcing yearly the results attained. He retained his position in Paris throughout the Franco-German war, generally respected for his devotion to science : died in Paris, Jan. 4-5, 1876.

MOLESWORTH, SIR GUILDFORD LINDSEY (1828–)

Born May 3, 1828 : son of Rev. J. E. N. Molesworth : educated at King's School, Canterbury, and College of Civil Engineers, Putney : Engineer in England, and on Ceylon railways : Consulting Engineer to the Government of India, 1871–89 : acting Director-General of Railways and Deputy Secretary to Government, 1880 : British delegate to the International Monetary Conference, Brussels, 1892 : author of several works on Railway Engineering and Currency questions. Iron manufacture in India, Masonry Dams, Engineer Volunteer Corps for India, Imperialism for India, Text-book of Bimetallism, 1886, etc.

MOLLOY, EDWARD (1842–1905)

Son of Robert Molloy : educated at Radley and Addiscombe : entered the Army at 18 : served in Assam, in the Khasia and Jaintia Hills rebellion, 1862–3; Bhutan campaign, 1865; N.W. Frontier Hazara campaign, 1868; Afghan war, 1878–80 : in the Kabul-Kandahar march and battle of Kandahar : Brevet-Major : Achakzai and Marri expeditions : Lt-Colonel : commanded the 2nd Gurkhas, Hazara Campaign, 1891 : Isazai expedition, 1892 : C.B., 1900 : Unemployed Supernumerary List, 1899 : died Feb. 1, 1905.

MONEY, SIR ALONZO (1723–1900)

I.C.S. : son of George Money, Master of the Supreme Court, Calcutta : educated at Haileybury : went out to Lower Bengal, 1843 : in the mutiny, as Magistrate-Collector of Gaya, returned to the station when ordered away, saved the treasure at great personal risk, escorted it to Calcutta : constantly engaged with the rebels in Bihar : C.B., 1860 : Commissioner of Bhagalpur, 1863 : Member of the Board of Revenue, 1869, and of the Bengal Legislative Council : left India, 1877 : English Commissioner of the Public Debt of Egypt from 1880 : K.C.M.G., 1898 : died at Cairo, April 7, 1900.

MONEY, ELLIOT ALEXANDER (1843–)

Born Aug. 16, 1843 : son of W. Money, B.C.S. : entered the Indian Army, 1860, and the Indian Staff Corps, 1869 : served in the Panjab Cavalry, and Corps of Guides, 1869–87 : A.A.G., Panjab, 1887–90 : commanded the 3rd Bengal Cavaky, 1891–4 : D.A.G., India, 1894–97 : officiated in command of Allahabad, Assam and Agra Districts, 1897–9 : C.B. 1897.

MONEY, WILLIAM JAMES (1832–)

I.C.S. : educated at Haileybury, 1850–2 : went out to Bengal in the Civil Service, 1853 : Civil Officer with the troops in the Sonthal rebellion, 1855 : Private Secretary to Sir James Outram, (q.v.) during the mutiny : at the relief of Lucknow and Alambagh : Magistrate and Collector of Cuttack, 1861–6 : District and Sessions Judge, 1873 : retired, 1879 : C.S.I., 1869.

MONIER-WILLIAMS, SIR MONIER (1819–1899)

Son of Colonel Monier-Williams, R.E., Surveyor-General, Bombay : born at Bombay, 1819 : educated at Chelsea, Brighton, King's College, London; Balliol College, Oxford : went to Haileybury, 1840 : but gave up his idea of going to India : went to University College, Oxford : gained the Boden Sanskrit scholarship, 1843 : Professor of Sanskrit, Persian and Hindustani at Haileybury, 1844–58 : Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford, 1860 : founded, in 1883, the Indian Institute at Oxford, as a centre of