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 C. R. Blunt, fourth Baronet (born 1778: M.P. for Lewes, 1832): his portrait by Barclay is in the possession of his grandson, the present Baronet: letters from him are among the Hastings papers in the British Museum: one of his daughters married Sir C. Imhoff, stepson of Warren Hastings: he built a mausoleum for the sepulture of his race-horses, which was still to be seen in India about 1845: many pictures of his horses are preserved.

BLYTH, EDWARD (1810–1873)

Born Dec. 23, 1810: was a druggist at Tooting, but Natural History was the absorbing study of his life: in 1841 he was appointed Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: retired in 1862: wrote a great number of reports and papers on Zoology, especially on birds and mammals, in the Society's journals and in newspapers: he was said to have been the founder of the science of Zoology in India: his work was highly estimated by Darwin and Gould: died Dec. 27, 1873.

BODEN, JOSEPH ( ? –1811)

Entered the E. I. Co.'s Bombay Native Army in 1781: Lt-Colonel 1806: held appointments on the Staff in Bombay: was Member of the Military Board: retired in 1807 and died Nov. 21, 1811. Though not a Sanskrit scholar, and not a writer, he left a large sum of money to found, after his daughter's death, a professorship of Sanskrit at Oxford. (q.v.) was the first professor appointed, in 1832.

BOGLE, SIR ARCHIBALD (1805–1870)

Entered the E. I. Co.'s military service, 1823: was D.A.G. at Dinapur, 1827: commanded the Arakan battalion and police corps, 1828: Commissioner in Arakan, 1837: afterwards in Tenasserim and Martaban: knighted, 1853: Maj-General, 1862: died June 12, 1870.

BOGLE, GEORGE (1746–1781)

Son of George Bogle: born Nov. 26, 1746: educated at Haddington, Glasgow, Edinburgh University, Enfield: entered the E. I. Co.'s service in 1769: was appointed by Warren Hastings on May 13, 1774, to lead an embassy to the Teshu Lama of Tibet, for the purpose of opening up trade and friendly relations with that country: he proceeded by Tassisudon in Bhutan, through Phari, to Desherigpay (north of the Tsanpu River), saw the Teshu Lama, accompanied him to Teshu Lumbo, and returned thence to India, 1775: in 1779 he was appointed Collector of Rangpur and established a fair, to encourage trade with Bhutan and Tibet. A second embassy of Bogle to Tibet was contemplated, but was postponed, the Teshu Lama going to Pekin: Bogle proposed meeting him at Pekin, but died at Calcutta on April 3, 1781: the journal of his embassy has been published.

BÖHTLINGK, OTTO VON (1815–1904)

Born May 30, 1815, at St. Petersburg: studied there and at Dorpat, Berlin, Bonn: returned to St. Petersburg, 1842. At first, his scholarship was directed to the study of Arabic and Persian, but he became celebrated as a worker in Sanskrit. In 1840, he published Grammaire Sanskrile (Panini's), 1843: Dissertation sur Vaccent Sanskrit: edition and German translation of Sakuntala de Kalidasa: Chrestomathie Sanskrite, 1877. The great work of his life was his Sanskrit Dictionary, 7 vols, brought out with the collaboration of Professors Roth and Weber, 1852–75: died at Leipzig in 1904.

BOLES, THOMAS (? -?)

Lt.Colonel: was a volunteer in the 36th regt., 1783: acting Ensign, 1784–5: a conductor of Stores: attached to Artillery, 1786–7: Ensign in the Madras Army, 1788: A.A.G., Madras Army for 5 years: D.A.G., 1807: when Lt.General H. Macdowall, C. in C, Madras, signed an order, Jan. 28, 1809, censuring his Q.M.G., Capt. Munro, Boles, as Depy. A.G., was ordered by Col. Capper, the Adjt-General, to circulate the order to the Army. For circulating, under his signature, this censure of Capt. Munro, Boles was suspended from the service of the E. I. Co., by the Government of Madras (Sir G. Barlow), Jan. 31, 1809: and declined to apologize for his conduct. The Madras Government prevented his going home, sent him to Bengal in June, 1809, whence he went to England. The Court of Directors, to whom he appealed in 1810, recorded in Feb. 1811, their opinion that Boles would not have been justified in refusing to obey General Macdowall's order. Boles' sus-