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 "Writers' Buildings," the other "Kidder-pur House in Alipur: M.P. for St.Ives and Winchester, and died Sep. 2, 1804. The story is told of him, as illustrative of the luxurious living of those days, that he said "bring more curricles." The Echoes from Old Calcutta by Dr. Busteed contains a picture of Barwell and some account of his life and character.

BASEVI, JAMES PALLADIS ( ? –1871)

Son of the architect, George Basevi: was educated at Rugby, Cheltenham and Addiscombe: went to India in the E.I.Co.'s Engineers, 1851: joined the P.W.D. in Bengal: was transferred in 1856 to the Great Trigonometrical Survey, and did valuable work, especially in the principal triangulation: he also did good service in reconnaissances in the Mahsud-Waziri expedition, 1860, and in the wild tracts of Jaipur and Bustar on the east coast, 1862: Captain, R.E.: in 1864, he was selected specially to conduct some highly scientific investigations proposed by the Royal Society, for the determination of gravity at certain stations of the great meridional arc of triangles extending from Cape Comorin to the Himalayas, by pendulum observations, which lasted some years, and necessitated exposure at high altitudes. He crossed Kashmir and Ladak and travelled through the Chanch-enmo valley to the Chinese frontier to make observations at above 16,000 feet: he burst a blood-vessel, and died July 17, 1871, "a martyr to his love of science," an officer "of sterling worth and excellent abilities."

BATEMAN-CHAMPAIN, SIR JOHN UNDERWOOD (1835–1887)

Son of Colonel Agnew Champain: born July 22, 1835: educated at Cheltenham, the Edinburgh Military Academy, and Addiscombe: went to India in the Bengal Engineers, 1854: in the mutiny was in the action of Badli-ka-sarai on June 8, 1857, and at the siege and capture of Delhi: was in several other engagements: at the capture of Lucknow in March, 1858, by Sir Colin Campbell: at the taking of Jagdishpur: in 1862 he went to Persia in connection with the Government telegraph system: in 1865, became Assistant to the Director of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, and in 1870 became himself the Director: took the additional name of Bateman: to complete and maintain the through telegraphic communication, he had to travel constantly to Persia, the Persian Gulf, Turkey, Russia and India: in 1869 he narrowly escaped drowning in the wreck of the P. and O. S.S. Carnatic: he was made K.C.M.G. Dec. 31, 1885: was on the Councils of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Society of Telegraph Engineers: died Feb. 1, 1887.

BATH, THOMAS HENRY THYNNE FIFTH MARQUIS OF (1862–)

Born July 16, 1862: son of the 4th Marquis: educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford: Private Secretary to the Earl of Iddesleigh, First Lord of the Treasury, 1886–7: Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Goschen: M.P. for Frome, 1886–92, and 1895–6: succeeded his father in the peerage, 1896: Lord Lieu-tenant of Somerset: Under Secretary of State for India, 1905.

BAYLEY, CHARLES STUART (1854–)

I.C.S.: son of Capt. Daniel Bayley, Bengal Cavalry: and grandson of (q.v.): educated at Harrow and Heidelberg: entered the Indian Civil Service, 1877: Political Agent in Bikanir: General Superintendent for suppressing of Thagi and Dakaiti: Agent to the Governor-General, Central India: C.S.I. Resident at Hyderabad, 1905.

BAYLEY, SIR EDWARD CLIVE (1821–1884)

I.C.S.: son of E. Clive Bayley: born Oct., 1821: educated at Haileybury: went to India in 1842: served in the N.W.P., and the Panjab: Under Secretary in the Foreign Department in 1849: called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1857: in the mutiny, was Under Secretary to Sir J. P. Grant when temporary Lieutenant-Governor of the "Central Provinces: Magte. of Allahabad: was for a short time Foreign Secretary in 1861: Home Secretary to the Government of India, 1862–72, and Member of the Supreme Council, 1873–78: K.C.S.I, in 1877: and C.I.E.: Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University, 1869–74, five times President of the