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 BOWRING, LEWIN BENTHAM (1824–)

I.C.S.: born July 15, 1824: third son of Sir George Bowring: educated at Exeter, Leipzig and Haileybury, 1841–3: went out to India, 1843: Deputy Commissioner in the Panjab, 1849–54: Private Secretary to Lord Canning, when Viceroy, April, 1858 to 1862: Chief Commissioner of Mysore and Coorg, 1862–70: retired, 1870: C.S.I., 1867: author of Eastern Experiences, Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultan, and contributions to the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

BOWSER, SIR THOMAS (1748–1833)

Born 1748, at Kirkby Thore, Westmorland: educated at Appleby Grammar School: entered the E.I. Co.'s Army at 24: at the taking of Tanjore in 1773: for 3 years engaged in the capture of forts in the N. Sircars: at the siege of Pondicherry, 1778: in the Guntur Sircar campaign, 1779: as a Lieutenant, in Sir Hector Munro's army in 1780, sent to help Col. Baillie and, with him, taken prisoner by Hyder Ali in the Perambakam disaster, Sept. 1780: confined at Seringapatam 3 years and 8 months: loaded with irons for 3 years and 4 months: liberated, 1784: to England for 3 years: published in 1788 his Memoirs of The Late War in Asia: served under Medows in 1792, at the storming of Dindigul: given by Cornwallis the command of a sepoy battalion: served under General Braithwaite at the siege of Pondicherry, 1798: employed against the Raja of Ramnad: effected the reduction of Ceylon, 1796: took fort Calpentein and Colombo: sent to reduce the French force under Perron at Hyderabad: at Seringapatam, May 4, 1790: stormed the fortress of Gooty: commanded from Hyderabad a mixed force, joining Colonel A. Wellesley, against Doondia Waugh: to England, 1803: again to India in 1820: commanded the Mysore Division: was temporarily C. in C. of Madras Army, 1824–6, on the death of Sir Alexander Campbell: retired. May, 1826: was a Lt-General and K.C.B.: died June, 1833.

BOYD, HUGH (1746–1794)

Son of Alexander Macaulay: took his mother's name, Boyd: born in Oct. 1746: educated at Dublin, and graduated at Trinity College, 1765: studied law, and contributed to journals and literature: in 1781 became Secretary to Lord Macartney, Governor of Madras: sent on a mission to Ceylon, captured by the French and kept a prisoner at Bourbon for some months: became Master Attendant at Madras, and conducted the Madras Courier: wrote the Indian Observer papers, and the Hircarrah: it was said that he was the author of the Letters of Junius, a supposition which he never positively contradicted: his works were collected and published: died Oct. 15, 17641794 [sic].

BRACKENBURY, SIR HENRY (1837–)

Born Sept. 1, 1837: educated at Eton and R.M.C., Woolwich: joined the Royal Artillery, 1856: in the Indian mutiny: served in Central India, 1857–8: Ashanti war, 1873–4: Zulu war, 1879–80: Private Secretary to Lord Lytton, the Viceroy of India, 1880: Military Attache at Paris, 1881–2: commanded River Column, Egypt, 1884–5: promoted Maj-General for distinguished service in the field: Director of Military Intelligence, 1886–91: Military Member of the Supreme Council of India, 1891–6: Director-General of Ordnance at the War Office, 1899: K.C.B., 1894: K.C.S.I., 1896: G.C.B., 1900: General R.A., 1901: P.C.

BRADDON, SIR EDWARD NICHOLAS COVENTRY (1829–1904)

Son of Henry Braddon, and brother of Miss Braddon the novelist: went out to India in 1847 to join the mercantile house of Bagshaw and Co., in Calcutta, but preferred work in the Mofussil: while he was employed on the E.I. Railway, the Sonthal rebellion of 1855 broke out, in which he rendered such excellent service that he was appointed an Assistant Commissioner in the Sonthal Parganas: during the mutiny he served in the Volunteer force under Sir George Yule, Commissioner of Bhagalpur, and, after the mutiny, on that officer's invitation, joined the Oudh Commission, where he remained until Oudh was amalgamated with the N.W.P. in 1877: resigned the Service and went to Tasmania, where he rose to be Premier and Agent-General for Tasmania in London: K.C.M.G., 1891: published Life in India, and Thirty Years of Shikar, in 1895: died Feb. 3, 1904.