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 BRYDON, WILLIAM (1811–1873)

Born Oct. 9, 1811: entered the E. I. Co.'s medical service in 1835: served with Sir H. Fane and Lord Auckland: sent in 1839 with a regiment to the first Afghan war. When the Army retreated from Kabul in Jan. 1842, Brydon was attached to the 6th regt. of Shah Shuja's Hindustani Infantry and, alone, of 13,000 persons, reached Jalalabad alive on January 13, 1842: he was in the garrison of Jalalabad under Sir R. Sale, and with General Pollock's army to Kabul and back in 1842: in the mutiny of 1857 he was, by a curious fate, again besieged, being in the Lucknow garrison, and was uninjured throughout the siege: C.B., 1858: retired, 1859, as Surgeon-Major of the Bombay Army: died March 20, 1873.

BUCHAN, GEORGE ( ? - ? )

I.C.S.: appointed a writer on the Madras Establishment, Aug. 1792: Assistant under the Secretary in the Military, PoHtical and Scout Department, and French Translator, 1794: also for supplying "beetle," tobacco, and "gangee" in 1795: Paymaster to the Malacca expedition, 1796: sub-Secretary in the above Department, 1799: Secretary in the Public and Commercial Department, 1801; in the Military Department, 1801: Chief Secretary, 1803: Private Secretary to Government, 1809: went home, 1810: "out of the service," 1814.

BUCHANAN, REV. DR. CLAUDIUS (1766–1816)

Born March 12, 1766: son of Alexander Buchanan: educated at Inverary and Glasgow University; Queen's College,Cambridge, 1791–5: ordained, 1795: went to Calcutta as a Chaplain on the Establishment, 1797: at Barrackpur and Calcutta: was Professor and Vice-Provost of the College of Fort William, 1799–1807, when the latter appointment was abolished: he devoted himself to the promotion of Christianity and to native education: he made two prolonged tours in Southern and Western India, 1806–7, to ascertain the circumstances and facts of the various religions of the country and suggest measures: he returned to England in 1808, and advocated the appointment of Bishops in India and the cause of missions, besides publishing translations of the Scriptures in Malayalam, Syriac, etc.: he wrote Christian Researches in Asia, 1810: Colonial Ecclesiastical Establishment, and papers about Christianity and Christian Missions in India: he was D.D. of Glasgow and Cambridge: died Feb. 9, 1815.

BUCHANAN, LEWIS MANSERGH (1836–)

Son of John Buchanan, of Co. Tyrone, Ireland: volunteered for the Crimea: served in the Indian mutiny in the 88th Connaught Rangers: author of Through the Himalayas and Chinese Tibet: Colonel: C.B.

BUCHANAN-HAMILTON, FRANCIS (1762–1829)

Doctor: born Feb. 15, 1762, son of Thomas Buchanan, doctor: took his degree of M.D. at Edinburgh in 1783: after serving on a man-of-war, joined the E.I. Co.'s service in 1794: employed on a mission to the Court of Ava, and on various botanical, zoological and statistical inquiries in Chittagong and Tippera, and, in 1800–1, through Mysore, Canara and Malabar, on which he wrote a full report: went to Nipal in 1802: he was Surgeon to Lord Wellesley, and accompanied him to England in 1805. The records of his subsequent inquiries in several Bengal districts and Assam were deposited at the India House in 1816 and not utilized for 22 years. He was Superintendent of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 1814–5, when he returned to Scotland and took the additional name of Hamilton on succeeding to his mother's property: F.R.S. and F.R.A.S., and contributed largely to the literary and scientific societies to which he belonged: wrote on the History of Nipal, the Genealogy of the Hindu gods, the Fishes of the Ganges, etc: died June 15, 1829.

BUCK, SIR EDWARD CHARLES (1838–)

I.C.S.: educated at Norwich and Oakham School, and Clare College, Cambridge: entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1862 and retired in 1897: represented the Indian Government at the Colonial Exhibition, 1886: Secretary to the Government of India, 1882–97: Knight Bachelor and K.C.S.I.