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  was continued to Oct. 1811, when he was restored to the service.

BOLTON, CHARLES WALTER (1850–)

I.C.S.: son of Dr. J. Bolton: educated at University College School, the Royal College, Mauritius, and King's College, London: went out to Lower Bengal, 1872: Under Secretary to the Bengal Government, 1879: Secretary to the Board of Revenue, 1897: Chief Secretary to the Bengal Government, 1896: Member of the Board, 1900: Additional Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council, 1900–1902: C.S.I., 1897.

BOLTS, WILLIAM (1740?–1808)

Born about 1740: was a merchant of Dutch extraction: being in Calcutta in 1759, he was taken into the E. I. Co.'s service: engaged in private trade, like other civil servants: was Second in Council at Benares, 1764: being censured by the Court of Directors for his private trading under the Company's authority and recalled, he resigned in 1766, quarrelled with, the Bengal authorities, was arrested in 1768, and deported to England as an interloper. In his Considerations on Indian Affairs, 1772, he attacked the Bengal Government: Verelst replied, and Bolts published another work in 1775. He made a large fortune in India, but could not take it away: he spent what he had in England in defending the lawsuits brought against him by the E. I. Co. for some years. He entered the Austrian service, became a Colonel, and founded stations in India for an Austrian Company: these came to nothing: he died in Paris in 1808.

BONARJEE, REV. SHIB CHUNDER (1830–1897)

A Brahman, of good family: educated at the Duff College, and baptized by the Rev. Dr. Duff in 1847: held various missionary charges: celebrated both for his eloquent preaching and his philanthropy: was the author of a Life of Christ in Bengali, and a large number of tracts: universally regarded as one of the leading ministers of the Bengali Church.

BONNERJEE, WOMESH CHUNDER (1844–)

Second son of Grees Chunder Bonnerjee, attorney of the High Court, Calcutta: born Dec. 29, 1844: educated at the Oriental Seminary and Hindu School: in 1864, in receipt of a scholarship from Mr. R. J. Jijibhai of Bombay, went to England to study law: called to the bar from the Middle Temple: joined the Calcutta High Court Bar, 1868: acted as the Standing Counsel to Government in 1882, 1884, 1886–7: presided over the First Indian National Congress at Bombay, 1885: Fellow of the Calcutta University: President of the Faculty of Law, 1880: represented the Calcutta University in the Bengal Legislative Council, 1893: retired from the Calcutta Bar, 1901, to practise before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England.

BOPP, FRANCIS (1791–1867)

Born at Mentz, Sep. 14, 1791: educated at Aschaffenburg, under Windischmann, the celebrated Oriental scholar: went to Paris, 1812, for 5 years: chiefly studied Sanskrit: settled in Gottingen: became in 1821 Extraordinary, and in 1825 Ordinary Professor of Oriental Literatiure and General Philology at Berlin University, till his death: a prominent Member of the Royal Society at Berlin: wrote his Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages in the Annals of Oriental Literature, 1820: greatly encouraged and facilitated the study of Sanskrit: his Sanskrit Grammar passed through several editions, 1827–63: an original foreign member of the R.A.S. from June 7, 1823: his Comparative Grammar was translated into English, 1845–50: he died Oct. 23, 1867.

BORTON, SIR ARTHUR (1814–1893)

Son of the Rev. J. D. Borton: born Jan. 20, 1814: educated at Eton: entered the Army, 1832, rose to be General, 1877: went to India in 1835, served in the Afghanistan campaign of 1842 under General Pollock: was at Tezin, in the Kohistan, and at Istalif on Sep. 29: in the battles of the Satlaj campaign of 1845–6: in the Crimea: C.B.: in Canada: commanded the Mysore Division of the Madras Army, 1870–5: K.C.B.: Governor and C. in C. of Malta in 1877: G.C.M.G., 1880: G.C.B., 1884: died Sep. 7, 1893.

BOSCAWEN, HON. EDWARD (1711–1761)

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