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 until he became Under Secretary, Financial Department of the Government of India, 1872: Accountant General, Bengal: Secretary to Government of Bengal, Revenue Department, 1882: member of the Bengal Legislative Council, 1882: Secretary to the Government of India, Financial Department, 1882: C.S.I., 1887: Member of the Royal Commission in England on gold and silver, 1886: Financial Member of the Supreme Council of the Governor General, 1888–1893: K.C.S.I., 1889: Member of the Indian Currency Commission, 1898: K.C.M.G., 1899: Member and Chairman of several important Royal Commissions and Committees on the currency and finance of other countries, and on questions involving great financial considerations: wrote The Theory of Bimetallism.

BARCLAY, GEORGE WALTER WOODFALL (1847–)

Son of Charles Barclay, Surgeon-General Madras Army: born Aug. 25, 1847: educated at St. Andrews, in Germany, and at Edinburgh University: M.A., 1867: in the Indian Government Telegraph Department, 1868–71: editor of the Calcutta Englishman, 1872–77: Fellow of the Calcutta University: left India, 1877: F.R.S.E., 1883: J. P.: sometime acting Editor of the Calcutta Review, and of Vanity Fair: has held various local appointments at Edinburgh.

BARKER, SIR GEORGE ROBERT (1817–1861)

Educated at the R.M.A., Woolwich: entered the Royal Artillery in 1834: served in the Crimea: became a Colonel: in the Indian mutiny served under Sir Colin Campbell, commanding as Brigadier the siege Artillery at the capture of Lucknow, March, 1858: commanded a Brigade in subsequent operations: captured Birwa: K.C.B.: died at Simla, July 27, 1861.

BARKER, SIR ROBERT, BARONET (1729?–1789)

Served in the Camatic and Bengal from 1754: as a Captain accompanied Clive to Calcutta in 1757, commanding the Artillery at Chandernagore and Plassy: returned to Madras, 1758: served in 1792 in Colonel Draper's expedition from Madras to the Phillippine Islands: knighted in 1763: raised the 24th N.I. 1876: Brig-General, 1770, and provincial C. in C., Bengal, in 1773: in July, 1772, a treaty was signed in his presence between the Nawab Wazir of Oudh and the Rohillas against the Mahrattas: after a quarrel with Warren Hastings he left India: became M.P. for Wallingford: Baronet, 1781: died Sep. 14, 1789.

BARLOW, SIR GEORGE HILARO, BARONET (1762–1847)

Governor: son of William Barlow, of Bath: joined the Bengal Civil Service in 1778: when employed, 1788–96, in the Revenue Secretariat, he had to carry out the Permanent Settlement of 1793 in Bengal: was Chief Secretary in 1796: became Member of the Supreme Council from Oct., 1801, and Vice-President in Council until, on Lord Cornwallis' death on Oct. 5, 1805, he, as provisional Governor-General, acted in that capacity until Lord Minto's arrival on July 31, 1807: Baronet, 1803: and K.C.B.: though he had supported Wellesley's policy of extending British power, he continued Cornwallis' policy of neutrality and conciliation towards the Native States, making concessions to Sindia and Holkar, and annulling protective treaties with Chiefs in Rajputana. In 1807 he went to Madras as Governor from Dec. 24: there he quarelled with the principal officers of both services: the military combined in a general mutiny, which Barlow suppressed vigorously: he was recalled and made over charge at Madras on May 21, 1813: G.C.B., 1815: died in England, Dec. 18, 1846.

BARNARD, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (1799–1857)

Son of the Rev. William Barnard: born in 1799: was educated at Westminster and Sandhurst: joined the Guards in 1814: was at the occupation of Paris: served in Jamaica and Canada: in the Crimea: Maj-General: commanded, first a Brigade, and later a Division, and was Chief of the Staff to General Simpson: K.C.B., 1856: in 1857, went to India as General of the Sirhind Division. Upon General Anson's death at Karnal, Barnard succeeded to the command, and, moving towards Delhi, defeated the rebels at Badli-ka-sarai on June 8: died of cholera on the ridge at Delhi, July 5, 1857.