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 fighting their way to Jalalabad : was in its defence : at the re-occupation of Kabul : C.B., and Major : Brig-Major at Agra : in the mutiny, his regt., the 6oth N.I., mutinied : he was at the siege of Delhi : Lt-Colonel of the 1st European Fusiliers : held Fatehghar, and was engaged in 1858 at Kankar, Bunhaganj : K.C.B., 1858 : retired as Maj-General, 1859 : wrote his autobiography, From Cadet to Colonel, 1866 : died Sep. II, 1876.

SECCOMBE, SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE (1812–1902)

Born July, 29, 1812 : entered the East India House in 1829, in the Financial Department : appointed Assistant Financial Secretary in it, 1858 : Financial Secretary, 1859 : Director of Military Funds, 1866 : C.B., 1869 : Assistant Under Secretary of State, 1872 : Accountant General, 1872 : K.C.S.I., 1877 : representative of India at Paris Conference on Bimetallism, 1878 : resigned the Financial Secretaryship, 1879 : Assistant Under Secretary of State till 1881 : on Lord Northbrook's Commission to determine the contribution payable by India towards Army effective charges, 1881–92 : G.C.I.E., 1892 : died April 9, 1902.

SEDDON, FELIX JOHN VAUGHAN (1798–1865)

Son of William Seddon : born 1798 : educated at Manchester : went to India, 1815 : accompanied the Army in the Burmese war, 1824–5, as translator : translated into Manipuri, and made an Assamese grammar and dictionary : translated the Bible: Professor of Oriental Languages at King's College, 1833 : after 1837, when he returned to India, became tutor to the Nawab Nazim, and lived at Murshidabad till his death there, Nov. 25. 1865.

SELL, REV. CANON EDWARD, D.D. (1839–)

Born 1839 : son of William John Sell : educated at a private school and the C.M.S. College, London : Head Master of the Harris High School for Muhamma-dans, Madras, 1865–80 : Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, Madras, 1880–1905 : Fellow, Madras University, 1874 : D.D. of Edinburgh University 1902 : Hon. Canon, St George's Cathedral, Madras, 1901 : Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Madras, 1900 : Chairman of the Arabic, Persian and Hindus-tani Board of Studies : Member of the Syndicate and also Examiner in the University of Madras : author of the Faith of Islam, 1896; Essays on Islam, 1901 : Historical Development of the Koran, 1905 : M.R.A.S.

SEN, KESHAB CHANDRA (1838–1884)

Born Nov. 19, 1838 : a kinsman of the Sena Rajas : grandson of Ram Kamal Sen, who was Diwan of the Calcutta Mint, and a Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal : and son of Piari Mohan Sen, who survived his father only three years, and died in 1848 : educated at the Hindu, Metropolitan, and Presidency Colleges, Calcutta : was thrown much into the society of the Christian Missionaries : in 1857 he joined the Brahmo Samaj, the reformed Theistic Society founded by Raja Rammohan Roy (q.v.) and extended by Debendranath Tagore (q.v.) : served as a clerk in the Bank of Bengal, 1859–61, but resigned his appointment : the rest of his life was spent as a Brahmo Missionary. In 1862 he established a central association at Calcutta, and was appointed Minister of the Brahmo Samaj by Debendranath Tagore : he visited Bombay and Madras on a Missionary tour and established branches of the Samaj. Differences arose between him and Debendranath Tagore as to the abandonment of old national customs, the advocacy of the re-marriage of widows and the removal of the Brahmanical thread : in 1866 he retired from the Brahmo Samaj and established what is known as the Brahmo Samaj of India as opposed to the Adi, i.e. the original Brahmo Samaj : in 1866 he lectured on "Jesus Christ, Europe and Asia," and his conversion to Christianity seemed probable until the publication of Great Men, in which he contended that other men also were above ordinary humanity." He opened his own Brahmo Mandir on Aug . 22, 1869, and then went on a Missionary tour to the North-West Provinces and Bombay. He visited the Viceroy (Lord Lawrence) at Simla and induced