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 TOLFREY, SAMUEL ( ? - ? )

An attorney of the Supreme Court, Calcutta, while Sir E. Impey (q.v.) was Chief Justice : acted for Sir P. Francis (q.v.) in the crim, con. case brought against him by G. F. Grand (q.v.) : sailed for England (according to Hicky's Bengal Gazette) about Dec. 1780, with three lakhs of rupees, Madame Grand (q.v.) being a passenger on the same ship.

TOLFREY, WILLIAM (1778?–1817)

Born about 1778 : to India, 1794 : joined the 76th regt. : served in Mysore under General Harris and in the Mahratta war, 1803–4 : at Assaye : left the Army, and joined the Ceylon Civil Service, 1806 : died there Jan. 4, 1817 : translated the New Testament into Pali.

TOLLY, WILLIAM ( ? –1784)

Colonel : made "Tolly's nullah" between Calcutta and Alipur, in 1775 : purchased Belvedere from Warren Hastings in Feb. 1780 : died 1784.

TOMBS, SIR HENRY (1824–1874)

Maj-General : son of Maj-General Tombs of the Bengal Cavalry : born Nov. 10, 1824 : educated at Sandhurst and Addiscombe : joined the Bengal Artillery, 1841 : was in the Gwalior campaign, at Punniar, Dec. 29, 1843 : in the Satlaj campaign of 1845–6 : at Mudki, Firozshahr, Badiwal, and Aliwal : A.D.C. to Sir Harry G. W. Smith : in the Panjab campaign of 1848–9 : D.A.Q.M.G. of Artillery, at Ramnagar, Chihanwala, and Gujarat : in the mutiny was at Meerut, at the Hindun, and Badli-ka-sarai : at the siege of Delhi, won the Victoria Cross on July 9, when he saved the life of Lt. James Hills, V.C. : commanded the Horse Artillery at the assault of Delhi, on Sep. 14 : wounded : C.B. : at the siege and capture of Lucknow, March, 1858 : in Rohilkund, at Aliganj, and Bareli, on May 5, 1858 : Brevet-Colonel : highly praised in Parliament : commanded the force in the Bhutan campaign, 1864–5, and recovered Dewangiri on April 2, 1865 : K.C.B., 1868 : Maj-General, 1868 : commanded the Bundelkund and the Oudh Divisions in 1871 : died Aug. 2, 1874. Lord Roberts wrote of Tombs as "an unusually handsome man, and a thorough soldier" : "as a cool, bold leader of men. Tombs was unsurpassed."

TONK, SAHIBZADA SIR OBEIDULLA KHAN, OF ( ? –1900)

Uncle of the Nawab, and for many years Minister of the State of Tonk : a man of fine presence and liberal ideas, sympathizing with progress and advancement in every direction : effected many improvements in the State : C.S.I., 1879 : K.C.I.E. : died Oct. 1900.

TORRENS, HENRY WHITELOCK (1806–1852)

I.C.S. : son of Maj-General Henry Torrens : born May 20, 1806 : educated at Brook Green, the Charterhouse, and Christ Church, Oxford : B.A. in 1825, and entered at the Inner Temple. After a short service under the Foreign Office, he obtained a writership from the Court of Directors of the E.I. Co. Arriving in India in Nov. 1828, he held various appointments at Meerut : in 1835 joined the Secretariat, in which he served in several Departments under the Government of India, accompanying Lord Auckland to the N.W.P. in Oct. 1837, as Deputy Secretary under Sir W. Macnaghten. In Dec. 1846 he was appointed Agent to the Governor-General at Murshidabad, where, in his endeavours to improve the Nizamat administration, his relations with the Nawab Nizam and his officials became greatly strained : died of dysentery at Calcutta, while on a visit to the Governor-General, Aug. 16, 1852 : buried in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery. In 1839 he assisted in the editing of the Calcutta Star, a weekly paper, which became a daily paper, called the Eastern Star : was Secretary, 1840 to 1846, to the Bengal Asiatic Society and a Vice-President in 1843–5 : founded the Meerut Observer at Meerut, and made an incomplete translation of the Arabian Nights, besides editing Professor Lassen's History of the Greek and Indo-Scythian Kings; and writing a novel,Madame de Malquet, and a series of articles on the "Uses of Military Literature and History."

TORRIANO, JOHN SAMUEL ( ? - ? )

Educated at the Royal Academy, Woolwich : arrived at Bombay, 1768, in the E. I. Co.'s Artillery : served at Surat and Cambay on behalf of the Peshwa, Raghunath Rao, against his subjects : at the battle of Arras : commanded European