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 siege of Delhi, where he gained his V.C : served also with Artillery in Rohilkund and other engagements, 1858–9 : in the Hazara Black Mountain campaign, 1868 : retired, 1878 : Maj-General : Colonel Commandant : died Jan. 5, 1887.

REWAH, MAHARAJA VENKAT RAMAN SINGH OF (1876–)

Born July 23, 1876 : son of Maharaja Raghuraj Singh Bahadur, G.C.S.I. : was invested in 1895, with full powers of a Ruling Chief : arranged for the relief of the sufferers in the famine of 1896–7, which severely strained the resources of the State : G.C.S.I.

REYNOLDS, HERBERT JOHN (1832–)

I.C.S : born 1832 : educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge : twice won the Chancellor's medal for English verse : went to Bengal in the Civil Service, 1856, and retired in 1889 : Revenue Secretary to Government of Bengal, and Member of the Bengal Legislative Council : President of the Opium Commission, 1883 : Member of the Board of Revenue, Bengal, and of the Governor-General's Legislative Council for some years : President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and presided at the Special Centenary Meeting, Jan. 15, 1884: C.S.I., distinguished as a scholar and writer.

RICE, BENJAMIN LEWIS (1837–)

Son of Rev. T. Rice : educated privately : appointed Principal of the High School (now Central College), Bangalore, 1860–5 : Inspector of Schools, Mysore and Coorg, 1865–8, 1870–3 : Director of Public Instruction in Mysore and Coorg, 1868–9, 1873–83 : Secretary to the Mysore Government, Education Department, 1883–90 : Director of Archaeological Researches in Mysore, 1890–1905 : introduced the Hobli school system of primary education in Mysore, 1868 : was Secretary to the Education Commission (Sir W. W. Hunter's), 1882–3 : C.I.E. : author of Gazetteers of Mysore and Coorg : Mysore Inscriptions : Epigraphia Carnatica, 12 vols : Bibliotheca Carnatica.

RICHARDS, SIR WILLIAM (1778–1861)

Maj-General : was a cadet in the Army in 1794 : at the siege of Seringa-patam : in the Mahratta war : served in the Nipal war, in Arakan and other parts of India : lived in India nearly 70 years without visiting England: K.C.B. : died at Naini Tal Nov. I, 1861.

RICHARDSON, DAVID LESTER (1801–1865)

Born 1801 : son of Lt-Colonel David Thomas Richardson of the E. I. Co.'s Bengal Army; joined the 2nd Bengal N. I. in 1819 : began in 1820 to contri-bute poetry to the Calcutta Journal : in 1822 published his miscellaneous poems : in 1824, returned for his health to England, published his Sonnets and other Poems, in 1825, and started The Weekly Review in 1827 : on its collapse, he returned to military service in Bengal in 1829 : Captain in Oct. 1832, and, on July 19, 1833, was invalided and retired as a Major. He was A.D.C. to Lord W. Bentinck, 1835. His life was afterwards devoted to education and literature. He undertook the editorship of the Calcutta Literary Gazette, the Calcutta Magazine, and the Bengal Annual. Later, he brought out his Literary Leaves, his Selections from the British Poets, Anglo-Indian Passage, Literary Chit-chat, Literary Recreations, Flowers and Flower Gardens, History of the Black Hole, of Calcutta. On (Lord) Macaulay's recommendation, the Trustees of the reconstituted Hindu College at Calcutta appointed him Professor of English Literature from Jan. 1836, and Principal in 1839. He was subsequently Principal of the new Krishnagar College (in 1845), of the Hughli College, and again of the Hindu College (1848–50), when he resigned his post and became tutor of (Maharaja Bahadur, Sir) Jotindra Mohan Tagore, and editor of the Bengal Hurkara. In 1859 he was appointed Principal of the Presidency College, Calcutta, but the Secretary of vState disallowed the appointment. He retired to England, Feb. 4, 1861: assisted in the editing of Allen's Overland Mail, and Homeward Mail and edited the Court Circular : died Nov. 17, 1865.