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 constantly on Indian subjects : Member of the Council of India, 1859–82 : Privy Councillor, 1882 : died April 22, 1882. He wrote on Indian Law and other subjects : Cases illustrative of Oriental Life, A Bird's eye View of India.

PETERSON, PETER (1847–1899)

Son of John Peterson : born Jan. 12, 1847: educated at Edinburgh University, Lincoln and Balliol Colleges, Oxford : Boden Sanskrit scholar, 1870 : went to Bombay in the Education Department, 1873 : Professor of Sanskrit at Elphinstone College : Registrar of the University : found many valuable San- skrit MSS. : edited Sanskrit works, and studied Jain literature : D.Sc. of Edinburgh, 1883 : Secretary and President of the R.A.S., Bombay, 1895 : contributed to its Journals and to the I-R.A.S. on Sanskrit subjects : wrote for the Times of India : died at Bombay, Aug. 28, 1899.

PETHERAM, SIR WILLIAM COMER (1836–)

Born 1835 : son of William Petheram : called to the bar at the Middle Temple, 1869 : Q.C., 1880 : Chief Justice of N.W.P., 1884 : Chief Justice of Bengal, 1886–96 : Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University for two years : wrote law books.

PETIT, SIR DINSHAW MANACKJI, BARONET (1823–1901)

Born June 30, 1823 : son of Manackj Nasserwanji Petit : educated at Sykes' School, Bombay : adopted, like his father a commercial career, and became broker to European firms : during the period of speculation in Bombay in 1864, etc., he acquired great wealth : erected the Manackji Petit Spinning and Weaving Mill, and became the chief shareholder, agent and Director in five other mills, also a Director of the Bank of Bombay and of various Companies : a member of Parsi Societies, of the Bombay Royal Asiatic Society : J.P. : and Member of Bombay Municipal Corporation : in his phil-anthropy he spent large sums on public and private charities and charitable institutions, including Towers of Silence and Fire Temples for his co-religionists, a Hospital for animals, a College for Females, the Petit Hospital, gifts of land to Government, etc., etc. : Sheriff of Bombay, 1886 : C.S.I., and knighted in 1887 : Baronet, 1890 : Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council, 1886 : died Feb. 1901.

PETIT, SIR DINSHAW MANACKJI, BARONET (1873–)

Born June 7, 1873 : son of Framji Dinshaw Petit : succeeded his grandfather, the first Baronet, 1901 : Delegate of the Parsi Chief Matrimonial Court : Chairman and Member of managing committees of all the principal Parsi charitable institutions of Bombay : a cotton mill-owner and merchant.

PETRIE, WILLIAM ( ? –1816)

Appointed a writer, 1765 : Factor, 1771 : Junior Merchant, 1874 : Senior Merchant, 1778 : to England, 1778 Member of Council, Madras, (the dates of his appointments being variously given), about 1790–1800 : also President of the Board of Revenue : acted for three months as Governor of Madras, 1807 : Governor of Prince of Wales' Island, 1809, where he died, 1816.

PEYTON, FRANCIS (1823–1905)

Born May 27, 1823 : son of Rev. Algernon Peyton : educated at Eton : entered the Army, 1841 : served in China war, 1842 : Panjab campaign, 1848 : at the forcing of the Kohat Pass, 1850 : in the Peshawar expeditionary force under Sir Sydney Cotton on the Yusafzai frontier, and at Sitana, 1858 : in the mutiny in the Peshawar Division : commanded Lichfield District, 1878 : Shorncliffe Camp, 1877 : 2nd and 3rd Brigades at Aldershot, 1877–81 : Lt-General : C.B. : died Feb. 1905.

PHAYRE, SIR ARTHUR PURVES (1812–1885)

Born May 7, 1812 : son of Richard Phayre : educated at Shrewsbury : entered the Bengal Army, 1828 : served in the administration of Burma, 1834–48 : in the Panjab, 1848–9 : Commissioner of Arakan, 1849, and of Pegu, 1852 : read the Proclamation announcing the annexation of the new territory : Interpreter to the King of Burma's mission to the Governor-General, 1854, to whom Dalhousie said : "As long as the sun shines in the heavens, the British flag shall wave<section end="Phayre, Sir Arthur Purves" />