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 1891: in the Hunza expedition, 1891–2: Isazai expedition, 1892: Chitral expedition, 1895: at the storming of the Nilt Fort in 1891–2: he obtained his V.C., and Brevet Majority: Colonel R.E.  AYLMER, HON. ROSE WHITWORTH (1779–1800)

Born Oct., 1779: only daughter of Henry, fourth Baron Aylmer, and his wife Catherine, who was sister to Lord Whitworth, Ambassador to Buonaparte in 1803. Walter Savage Landor wrote verses to her at Swansea about 1796–7, and she lent him the book which suggested the subject of his poem "Gebir." She went to India in 18781798 [sic] with her aunt (née Whitworth) wife of Sir (q.v.), Puisne judge, afterwards Chief Justice of Bengal, and became engaged to Sir Henry's son, afterwards second Baronet, but died of cholera on March 2, 1800, at her uncle's house in Calcutta. Landor's elegy on her death was published in 1806. She was buried in the cemetery in South Park Street, Calcutta, the inscription on her tomb being taken from Young's Night Thoughts, iii. 70.  AYRTON, ACTON SMEE (1816–1886)

Born 1816: son of Frederick Ayrton, barrister at Bombay: practised as a solicitor at Bombay, 1836–50, when he returned to England: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway: called to the bar from the Middle Temple, 1853: M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, 1857–74: Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in Gladstone's Administration, 1868–9: Privy Councillor: First Commissioner of Works, 1869–73: Judge Advocate General, 1873–4: defeated in his candidatures for the Tower Hamlets, 1874, and for the Mile End Division, 1885: died Nov. 30, 1886.  AYUB KHAN, (1849–)

Fourth son of Shir Ali, Amir of Afghanistan, brother of (q. v.): was long a fugitive in Persia, but was appointed Governor of Herat by Yakub in 1879: he advanced thence upon Kandahar in July, 1880, and atMaiwandat Maiwand [sic], on the 27th, defeated General Burrows and his force: besieged Kandahar: on Sep. 1. he fought the battle of Kandahar against Sir  (q. v.), who had marched thither from Kabul, and was routed, fleeing towards Herat: in July, 1881, he defeated Amir Abdur Rahman's troops and captured Kandahar, but, being defeated there by the Amir, fled to Persia, where he was made a prisoner of state: he escaped and tried to cross the Afghan frontier in 1887, but was repulsed, and surrendered to the British Agent at Mashad: eventually he was made over to the Government of India and interned in India, being kept at Rawul Pindi.  BABA, SIR KHEM SINGH BEDA (1830–)

Fourteenth in direct descent from Sikh Guru, the great reformer: Member of Legislative Council of the Panjab for two years: K.C.I.E.  BADCOCK, SIR ALEXANDER ROBERT (1844–)

Born Jan. 11, 1844: educated at Elstree and Harrow: entered the Indian Army, 1861: served in the Bhutan Campaign, 1864–5: Hazara, 1868: Perak, 1875–6: Afghanistan, 1878–80, in the Commissariat Department: at the Peiwar Kotal, and in the engagements at Kabul: Chief Commissariat officer of Sir F. Roberts' force on the Kabul-Kandahar march in Aug. 1880, and in the battle of Kandahar: made C.B.: was Q.M.G. in India, 1900: C.S.I.: K.C.B. in 1902: Member of the Council of India in 1901.  BADEN POWELL, BADEN HENRY (1841–1901)

I.C.S.: born 1841: son of Professor Baden Powell of Oxford: educated at St. Paul's School: in the Civil Service in the Panjab, 1861–89: served in the Indian Forest Department: was an authority on Indian land tenures: for some years a Judge of the Chief Court of the Panjab: wrote Land Systems of British India, The Indian Village Community: helped to establish the Lahore University: M.A. Oxford, 1894: C.I.E.: died Jan. 2, 1901.  BADGER, REV. GEORGE PERCY (1815–1888)

Born in April, 1815: spent his youth at Malta, and 1835–36 at Bairut to learn Arabic: ordained in 1841: for his knowledge of the East and of Arabic was sent as a delegate to the Eastern Churches,<section end="Badger, Rev. George Percy" />