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 John Bull and changed it into the Englishman : edited Bengal Monthly Sporting Magazine, East Indian United Service Journal, Indian Racing Calendar, Fifteen Months' Pilgrimage through Khuzistan and Persia, 1832 ; Memorials of Afghanistan, 1843 : lectured in England on Indian subjects : established an East Indian Institute : was a correspondent in the American war : died, 1885 : wrote A Handbook of India, 1844; India, its History, Character etc. etc. 1853; Memoirs, etc. of Maj-General Sir William Nott, 1854 : and other works.

STODDART, CHARLES (1806–1842)

I.S.C. : born July 23, 1806 : son of Major Stephen Stoddart : entered the Royal Staff Corps, 1823 : Captain 1834 : Secretary to the Royal United Service Institution, 1833–5, and to the Institute of Civil Engineers : went to Persia as Military Secretary to the British Envoy, 1835 : with the Persian Force at the siege of Herat, 1837–8 : through him the siege was raised : Lt-Colonel : sent to Bokhara to treat for relief of Russian captives there, and to make treaty with the Amir, 1838 : imprisoned : released in 1839 : again imprisoned, 1839–40 : served the Amir, who desired to make alliance with England : Stoddart and Arthur Conolly imprisoned in Dec. 1841, by Amir's order : both publicly beheaded on June 17, 1842 : no evidence of their having become Muhammadans.

STOKES, SIR HENRY EDWARD (1841–)

I.C.S. : born July 23, 1841 : son of Henry Stokes, County Surveyor of Kerry : educated at Trinity College, Dublin : entered Madras Civil Service, 1858 : Chief Secretary to Government, Madras, 1883–8 : Member of Council, Madras. 1888–93 : K.C.S.I., 1892.

STOKES, WHITLEY (1830–)

Son of Dr. William Stokes of Dublin : educated at Dublin and Edinburgh Universities : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1855 : went to India, 1862 : Acting Administrator General, 1863–4 : Secretary to Legislative Council of Governor-General, and later to Legislative Department of the Government, 1865–77 : Legal Member of the Supreme Council, India, 1877–82 : drafted the greater portion of the Codes of Civil and Criminal Procedure, Transfer of Property, Trusts, Easements, Specific Relief, and Limitation Acts : author of The Anglo-Indian Codes, 1887–8, 1889 and 1891 : has devoted himself to philological studies and edited many Irish texts : the greatest living Celtic scholar, equally versed in the Irish, Breton and Cornish languages : C.S.I., 1877 : C.I.E., 1879 : Honorary Doctor of Law, Edinburgh.

STOLICZKA, FERDINAND ( ? –1874)

Had a reputation as a naturalist and geologist in connexion with the Imperial Geological Survey of Austria before he joined the Geological Survey of India, 1862 : Palaeontologist to the Indian Survey : wrote on the Cretaceous Fauna of S. India : was a laboratory-zoologist : in 1869 commenced to study, systematically, the anatomy, physiology and morphology of the mollusca and other invertebrata : an accomplished naturalist : accompanied, as the scientific member, Sir T. D. Forsyth's Mission to Kash- gar, 1873 : wrote papers on the geology of the route to Kashgar : died from exposure at Boolak-i-Moorghai, 12 marches from Leh, June 9, 1874.

'''STONE, VEN. ARTHURE EDWARD''' ( ? - )

Educated at St. Peter's, York, and Trinity College, Dublin : Chaplain on the Bengal establishment, 1877–1902 : served with Upper Burma Field Force, 1886–8 : Archdeacon of Calcutta, 1898–1902 : Fellow of Calcutta University : Rector of Islip, Oxford, since 1902.

STRACHEY, SIR ARTHUR (1858–1901)

Born Dec. 5, 1858 : son of Sir John Strachey (q.v.) : educated at Charter-house and Trinity Hall, Cambridge : LL.D : called to the bar from the Inner Temple, 1883 : practised in the Allahabad High Court : in 1892, Public Prosecutor and Standing Counsel to Government, N.W.P. : Puisne Judge, Bombay High Court, 1895 : Chief Justice of the High Court, Allahabad, 1899 : knighted : died at Simla, May 14, 1901.