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 Frederick Harvie Linklater AS born in 1847, and is the son of a well-known solicitor in the City of London, who had the largest bankruptcy practice in that city. The subject of this memoir commenced his education at Eton, where he remained till 1866, when he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and, in November 1869, graduated B.A. of that University. In addition to the ordinary curriculum he devoted himself with great zeal to the study of Divinity, which he pursued under Mr. Jackson (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and of London), and to the learning of Hindustani from two fellow-students, natives of India. He evinced an early taste for the drama, and became a prominent member of the Amateur Dramatic Club, whose performances were largely attended by residents and visitors. Mr. Linklater was greatly distinguished in athletics and games of skill. He rowed for two years in the "First Trinity," when that boat was at the head of the river, and for one of those years rowed the stroke oar; he won the golden foils in the fencing tournament with the University of Oxford, and played second to Mr. Richardson for the prize billiard cue. Leaving the University in 1869, he entered his father's office, but was rescued from drudgery by his knowledge of Hindustani, a qualification which induced Sir George Jessel, the Master of the Rolls, to send him to India as Commissioner to take evidence in a cause. This duty required him to visit Delhi, Madras, and Ceylon. He also made a trip to America, and joined the forces of the States then engaged in the Sioux war. He fought through the campaign and was wounded in three places; and was rewarded for his services by being made a citizen of the Great Republic. During this trip Mr. Linklater, with three companions, rode through the old Spanish settlement up the Colorado, across the Great Desert to the mountains. Two of his comrades were American citizens, one of whom was a