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 ANDERSON, REV. PHILIP (1816–1857)

Son of Captain Anderson, of the E. I. Go's service : educated at St. Paul's school, from 1824 : Pauline Exhibitioner, C.C. College, Cambridge, 1834 : B.A., 1838 : M.A., 1849 : ordained : Chaplain at Colaba, Bombay, 1849–57 : he began The Bombay Quarterly Magazine, 1850 : edited The Bombay Quarterly Review from Jan. 1850 : died at Malabar Hill, Bombay, Dec. 13, 1857 : he published The English in Western India, 1854 and 1856, an interesting account of the early factories of the Bombay coast and the life therein, believed to be the first attempt to popularize this information : his sermons are in the British Museum : was Vice-President of the Bombay R.A.S. : a memorial window and tablet were erected to him in Colaba Church.

ATKINSON, GEORGE FRANCKLIN ( ? –1861? )

Joined the Bengal Engineers : Captain in 1859 : he wrote and illustrated numerous occasional papers in the periodicals of the sixties, especially The Leisure Hour, familiarizing English readers with the civil and military life of Europeans in India : he published Pictures from the North, in pen and pencil, sketched during a summer ramble, 1848 : The Campaign in India, 1857–8, from drawings made during the eventful period of the Great Mutiny : dedicated to H.M. Queen Victoria, 1859 : this was his most finished work : Curry and Rice, on 40 Plates, or the Ingredients of Social Life at our Station in India : second edition, 1859 : an imrivalled series of pictures of life in the old cantonments in pre-mutiny days, dedicated to W. M. Thackeray, a book still in demand : he wrote also Indian Spices for English Tables, 120 humorous sketches, 1860 : died about 1861.

COLVIN, SIR WALTER MYTTON (1847–)

Born 1847 : youngest son of J. R. Colvin, I.C.S. (q.v.) : educated at Rugby and Trinity Hall, Cambridge : LL.B. : called to the Bar from the Middle Temple, 1871 : practised at Allahabad : was Member of the Indian Police Commission, 1902–3 : knighted 1904.

CONNON, JOHN ( ? –1874)

Educated at Aberdeen : M.A. : went out to Bombay about 1859, and then became Editor, and soon after Proprietor, of the Bombay Gazette, the oldest local journal, which Connon conducted with much vigour, generally in opposition to the Government of the day. He always took an active part in the public affairs of the City : was a racy conversationalist : returned to England about 1863 : kept his law terms, and was called to the bar : went back to Bombay and resumed charge of the Bombay Gazette (edited in his absence by J. M. Maclean (q.v.). Though Connon had little or no practice in the Courts, his status as a barrister qualified as Chief Police Magistrate for the Town and Island of Bombay, which post was given him and occupied efficiently until his health broke down : he died at Suez on his way home in 1874 : he had been prominent as a member of the Bench of Justices, the Corporation of that day, of which, in its later form, Connon became Chairman : his memorial bust stands now in the Municipal Hall, Bombay.

FINLAY, JAMES FAIRBAIRN (1852–)

I.C.S. : son of William Finlay, F.R.C.P., Edinburgh : educated at Edinburgh Academy and University : went to India in 1875 : to the Panjab : served chiefly in the Finance Department : Under Secretary to the Government of India in that Department : Accountant General, Bengal : also in the N.W.P. and Oudh : Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, 1889 : and Secretary in that Department, 1891–1903 : officiating Member of the Supreme Council, 1902 : Member of the Council of India, 1903 : C.S.I., 1896.

HALL, REV. GORDON (1781–1826)

Born April 8, 1781, at Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts : son of Nathan Hall of Ellington, Connecticut : early showed a taste for books and writing : educated at Williams College : graduated,