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 Indian learning and interests : making three journeys to India to obtain native sympathy and help : was Fellow of Balliol, 1882–6 : Hon. Fellow of University College, 1892 : Curator of the Indian Institute : D.C.L., 1875 : LL.D., Calcutta : Ph.D. Gottingen : K.C.I.E., 1887 : wrote a Sanskrit grammar, English-Sanskrit and Sanskrit-English dictionaries; Indian Epic Poetry, 1863; Indian Wisdom, 1875; devoted himself to the practical study of Sanskrit and later rather than the oldest Sanskrit literature; some Hindustani works, Hinduism, 1877; Modern India and the Indians, 1878; Religious Life and Thought in India, 1883; Buddhism, 1889 : Brahmanism, 1891 : co-editor of Memorials of Old Haileybury : he supported Missionary enterprise in India, and aimed at increasing the knowledge of Indian religions in England : he died April 11, 1899.

MONRO, JAMES (1838–)

I.C.S. : born Nov. 25, 1838 : son of George Monro, S.S.C. Edinburgh : educated at the Edinburgh High School, Edinburgh and Berlin Universities : went out to Lower Bengal, 1858 : was Civil and Sessions Judge, 1874 : Inspr-General of Police, Bengal, 1877 : Commissioner of a Division, 1881 : strongly opposed Lord Ripon's policy of Local Self Government : retired, 1883 : became Assistant-Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, London, 1884 : Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1888–90 : C.B., 1888 : as Commissioner of Police, London, Monro stopped the dynamite outrages, and controlled the great strikes of the dock labourers and South London gasworkers : got justice done to the men of the Metropolitan Police in the matter of their pensions : went to India again about 1892 : organized and superintended the Ranaghat Medical Mission till 1905.

MONRO, SEYMOUR CHARLES HALL ( ? - ? )

Entered the Army, 1877, and became Colonel, 1900 : in the Afghan war, 1878– 80: was in the Kabul-Kandahar march and battle of Kandahar : severely wounded: Egypt, 1882 : Tel-el-Kebu : South Africa, 1884, Brevet-Major : Hazara campaign, 1891 : Chitral Relief Force, 1891 : Brevet-Lt-Colonel : N.W.Frontier 1897–8 : South Africa, 1899–02, Brevet-Colonel : C.B., 1903.

MONSON, HON. GEORGE (1730–1776)

Son of John, first Lord Monson : born April 18, 1730 : educated at Westminster : entered the footguards in 1750 : M.P. for Lincoln, 1754–68 : went out to Bombay 1758; Madras, 1759 : second in command at the siege of Pondicherry, 1760 : superseded Eyre Coote, but was wounded and had to yield his position : at Manilla under Colonel Draper in 1762 : Brig-General, 1763 : A.D.C. to George III, 1769 : appointed, under the Regulating Act of 1774, Member of the Supreme Council in India : assumed office Oct. 20, 1774 : with Francis and Clavering opposed Warren Hastings, who regarded him as a dangerous opponent : resigned in Sep. 1776 : but died on 25th of that month at Hughli.

MONSON, HON. WILLIAM (1760–1807)

Son of John, second Baron Monson : born Dec. 15, 1760 : to India with the 52nd regt. in 1780 : in the attack on Seringapatam under Cornwallis in 1792 : Lt-Colonel, 1797 : in the Mahratta war, 1803, commanded a Brigade under Lake : led the storming party at Alighar, Sep. 4, 1803 : severely wounded : sent in 1804 as Brig-General, with a detachment, to remain during the rainy season about the Jaipur frontier and watch Jaswant Rao Holkar, whom he followed along the river Chambal : Holkar's force was so great that Monson desisted from attacking him, and retreated from July 8 to Aug. 30, 1804, before him, Holkar pursuing : Monson lost all his guns and baggage before he reached Agra : again employed by Lake against Holkar : at battle of Deeg, Nov. 14, 1804 : led the last of the four assaults on Bhartpur, 1805 : retmrned to England, 1806 : M.P. for Lincoln : died Dec. 1807.

MONTAGU, EDWARD (1765–1799)

Son of Admiral John Montagu : born 1755 : educated at the R.M.A., Woolwich : went out to Bengal, 1770 : joined the Bengal Artillery, 1772 : was under General Goddard in the Mahratta campaign, 1781 : in Bundelkund : and in the Carnatic against Hyder Ali and the French, 1782–3; with Cornwallis in the invasion of Mysore