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 THACKWELL, COLQUHOUN GRANT ROCHE (1867–)

Entered the Indian Army, 1878, and became Major, 1898 : served in the Afghan war, 1878–80 : Mahsud-Waziri expedition, 1881; Egypt, 1882 : Chitral, 1895; N.W. Frontier, 1897 : D.S.O., 1898 : Chief Supply and Transport Officer, Rawal Pindi District.

THACKWELL, SIR EDWARD JOSEPH (1781–1869)

Born Feb. I, 1781 : son of John Thackwell : entered the Army, 1798 : with the 15th Light Dragoons in the Peninsula : in several battles : at Waterloo : lost his left arm : Brevet Lt-Colonel, 1817 : commanded the 15th Hussars, 1820–32 : K.H., 1834 : commanded the Cavalry in the Afghan war, 1838–9 : at Ghazni : returned from Kabul, 1839 : C.B., 1838 : K.C.B., 1839 : commanded the Cavalry in the Gwalior campaign, 1843 : and at Sobraon, 1846 : Maj-General, 1846 : commanded the Cavalry at Chilianwala and Gujarat, 1849 : G.C.B., 1849 : Inspr-General of Cavalry, 1854 : Lt-General, 1854 : died April 8, 1859 : wrote Narrative of the Second Sikh War in 1848–49, 1851.

THANAWALA, KHAN BAHADUR CURSETJI RUSTAMJI ( ? –1903)

Began as translator of the Supreme Court : became a Subordinate Judge, and interpreter at the trial of the Gaekwar, Malhar Rao, 1875 : Chief Judge at Baroda : Member of Council of the Baroda Administration, during the Gaekwar's absence in Europe : Diwan of the Rutlam State : Khan Bahadur : C.I.E. : died April 24, 1903.

THIBAUT, GEORGE FREDERICK WILLIAM (1848–)

Born at Heidelberg, 1848 : son of Karl Thibaut, Librarian to the University, and himself son of the celebrated jurist, A. F. J. Thibaut : educated at the Gymnasium, Heidelberg, and the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin : went to England, 1871 : worked several years as assistant to Max Muller (q.v.) : appointed, 1875, Anglo-Sanskrit Professor in the Benares Sanskrit College : Principal of the College, 1879–88 : Professor, Muir Central College, Allahabad, 1888–95; Principal there since 1895 : his literary work has been done chiefly in the departments of Indian Philosophy, Astronomy, and Mathematics : his more important publications are, On the Sulvasutras, 1875 : The Sulvasutra of Bandhayana, with translation, 1875 : The Arthasangraha, a treatise on Purva Mimamsa, with translation, 1882 : The Panchasiddhantika, the astronomical work of Varaha Mihira, with translation (in collaboration with Pandit Sudhakara Dvivedi), 1889 : the Vedanta sutras, with Sankara's Commentary, translated (Sacred Books of the East, vols. 34, 38) : Indian Astronomy, Astrology and Mathematics in Buhler's Encydopcedia of Indian Research, 1899 : The Vedanta sutras, with Ramanuja's Commentary, translated (Sacred Books, etc., vol. 48), 1904 : has edited (with R. Griffith), the "Benares Sanskrit Series," of which more than 100 fasciculi have appeared.

THOMAS, EDWARD (1813–1886)

I.C.S. : numismatist and Indian antiquary : born Dec. 31, 1813 : son of Honoratus Leigh Thomas : educated at Haileybury : went to India, 1832 : was Judge of Sagar : suffered greatly from ill-health : refused the Foreign Secretaryship offered to him in 1852 retired, 1857 : devoted himself to literary and scientific pursuits : wrote many papers on branches of Indian and old Persian archaeology, including Bactrian, Sassanian and Indo-Scythic coins, Indian weights and measures, Sassanian gems and inscriptions, in the Journals of the Royal Asiatic Society and Asiatic Society of Bengal, the Numismatic Chronicle, and the Indian Antiquary : many of them were collected in his Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Delhi, 1847 : he edited James Prinsep's Essays on Indian Antiquities and the International Numismata Orientalia : his was a " name recognized over Europe as a prince in Oriental numismatics." He was 25 years treasurer of the Royal Asiatic Society : more than any one, he encouraged the study of Oriental antiquities in England, and rendered great services to archaeology : F.R.S. : corresponding member of the French Institute and of the Academy of St. Petersburg : C.I.E. : died Feb. 10, 1886.