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 Edinburgh University, 1885–02 : Author of Life of Mahomet, Annals of the early Caliphate, The Mameluke Dynasty, The Koran, etc.. The Muhammadan Controversy : K.C.S.I., 1867 : D.C.L., Oxford : LL.D. of Glasgow and Edinburgh : Ph.D. of Bologna : died July 11, 1905.

MUIR, SIR WILLIAM MURE (1817–1885)

Educated at the University, Edinburgh, and St. George's Hospital, London : M.D., Edinburgh, 1840 : Assistant Surgeon, 1842 : Surgeon-General, 1873 : served in the Mediterranean, Turkey, Crimea, Mauritius, India, China, N. America : in the mutiny, in 1857–8 : P.M.O. in China, and of British troops in Bengal : head of Sanitary Branch of A.M.D. : Director-General of the A.M.D., 1874 : introduced, in the face of opposition, many beneficial changes in the position and duties of Army Surgeons : obtained the Warrant of 1879, changing the old system of attaching medical officers to regiments : K.C.B. : died June 2, 1885.

MUKERJI, ANUKUL CHANDRA (1829–1871)

Born 1829 : educated at the Hindu College : Senior Scholar : Nazir under the Magistrate of Howrah : passed the Law Examination, 1855, and became Pleader of the Sadr Court : Fellow of the Calcutta University, and Junior Government Pleader, 1868 : Senior in 1870 : and Member of the Bengal Legislative Council : Puisne Judge of the High Court, Calcutta, 1870 : died Aug. 17, 1871. He is best remembered by the Memoir, dated June i, 1873, of his life written by Mohindranath Mukerji, and dedicated to the Chief Justice of the day. It was a revelation of the capabilities of a half-educated Bengali author. Its first few lines will give some idea of the style :— "Let me hold my Penna after a few months, to write the memoir of the individual above named : but quid agis ? if any one put me such a query, I will be utterly thrown into a great jeopardy and hurley-burley, and say—a fool of myself !"

MUKERJI, BHUDEB (1825–1894)

Son of Pandit Bisva Nath Tarkabhusan : born March 25, 1825, in a family distinguished for generations for its Sanskrit culture and strict Brahmanical tenets : educated at the Sanskrit and Hindu Colleges : after holding some minor scholastic appointments, became Assistant Inspector in the higher educational service : C.I.E. in 1877 : appointed in 1882 to the Bengal Legislative Council, and a Member of the Education Commission : had a great reputation as an educationist, was proprietor of the Education Gazette, and made a valuable endowment for the promotion of Sanskrit learning : he retired in July, 1883 : he wrote extensively on a great variety of subjects : an orthodox Hindu, he had read widely and held liberal views on many social matters : he died May 16, 1894.

MUKERJI, RAJA DAKHINARANJAN (1814–1878)

Born Oct. 1814 : son of Jagamohan Mukerji : grandson of Babu Surji Kumar Tagore, of Calcutta : educated at the Hindu College : was a linguist : prac- tised as a Vakil in the Sadr Court : joined in establishing the Bengal Spectator, an Anglo-Indian Periodical : was a member of the British Indian Association and a zamindar of the Jessore District : was Tax Collector of the Calcutta Municipality, and Diwan of the Nawab Nazim of Murshidabad : received, in 1859, the forfeited estate of Sankarpur in Rai Bareli, in Oudh, from Lord Canning, fot mutiny services : the first Secretary of the Oudh Talukdars' Association : helped to establish the Canning College at Lucknow : made a Raja, 1871, for his philanthropy and patriotism : established a vernacular newspaper and purchased the Luknow Times as the organ of the Oudh Taluk- dars : gave some of the land and laboured zealously for the Bethune Female School : died July 11, 1878.

MUKERJI, HARISH CHANDRA (1824–1861)

Son of a high-caste Kulin Brahmin in poor circumstances, by the youngest of his seven wives : at 14 had to earn his livelihood by writing petitions, etc. : in 1848 obtained a post in the Military Auditor-General's office by competition, and gradually became Assistant Military Auditor : a great reader, he acquired a