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4 August 1811, of a fever contracted while examining oriental manuscripts in a damp ill-ventilated library. He died at the early age of 35, leaving a reputation as one of the most deeply versed oriental scholars who ever served in the country. In his day, also he had considerable reputation as a poet, though few have read "The Scenes of Infancy," in the present generation. One of his works "Journal of a Tour in the Highlands" was published so recently as 1903.

John Macneill, the next name on our list, was even better know it in his day than Crawfurd or Leyden, attaining to much greater worldly success than either of them; in some ways, indeed, greater success than any other man in the I. M. S., having been an Ambassador, G. C. B., and a Privy Councillor. No other I. M. S. officer has attained to either of the first two dignities; Joseph Hume is the only other man who has attained to the third. John Macneill was born at Colonsay on 12th August 1795, and he died at Edinburgh, where he took the degree of M. D. in 1814, at the age of 19, and entered the Bombay Army as Assistant-Surgeon on 6th September 1816. In 1818-19 he served in the field force under Colonel East in Cutch and Okamandal, afterwards becoming Deputy Medical Store-keeper. He became Surgeon on 1st May 1824, and from 1824 to 1835 was attached to the E. I. Company's Legation in Persia, first as medical officer, then as political assistant. On 30th June 1835 he was appointed Secretary to the special Embassy sent to Teheran, under Sir Henry Ellis, to congratulate Muhamad Shah on his accession to the Persian throne. At the same time the Persian Legation was handed over by the E. I. Company to the Foreign Office. The first class of the Persian order of the Lion and Sun was conferred on Macneill in 1835; on 9th February 1836 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia. In 1838 he was present in the Persian camp, at the siege of Herat, from 6th April to 7th June. In 1839 he was created a G. C. B. (civil), and left Persia for good on 15th August 1842. In 1845 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Supervision of the working of the Scottish Poor Law Act of 1845 and held this post till 1878. In 1855 Sir John Macneill and Colonel Sir Alexander Murray Tulloch were sent to the Crimea as Special Commissioners to inquire into the working of the Commissariat. Macneill was elected F. R. S. on 5th April 1838, was made a Privy Councillor in 1857; he was also D. C. L, Oxford, and LL. D., Edinburgh. He died at Cannes on 17th May 1883.

John Stephens entered the Bengal Army as Assistant-Surgeon on 17th September 1806, and became Surgeon on 7th October 1818. He was serving as Assistant to the officer in charge of the then newly-ceded territories of Narbada and Sagar, when he was murdered in court, at Seoni, on 17th August 1827.

James Morton entered 16th March 1820, and became Surgeon on 7th May 1831. He served for many years in the Arakan Commission, and died at Kyukphyu on 24th June 1845, while holding the appointment of Senior Assistant Commissioner of Arakan.

Archibald Campbell entered the Service on 8th May 1827 and became Surgeon on 16th January 1844. He held the appointment of Superintendent of Darjiling from 1840 till his retirement on 8th Feburary 1862. When touring in Sikkim with Sir Joseph Hooker, they were seized by the Diwan of the Sikkim Raja, on 7th November 1849, and kept in confinement at Tumloong till 9th December. Campbell was subjected to considerable indignities and ill-treatment, but Hooker was not molested, and indeed would have been allowed to go, but refused to abandon Campbell. On 9th December they were allowed to start for Darjiling, under the Diwan's escort as far as the Rangit, and reached Darjiling on 24th December. As a result of this outrage, the Government of India annexed the Sikkim Tarai, and the hills up to the great Rangit River, and also stopped the annual subsidy of Rs. 3,000, formerly paid to the Sikkim Raja as rent for the site of Darjiling.

John Spencer Login entered the Bengal Medical Service on 5th March 1832, becoming Surgeon on 17th April 1848. He served in the First Afghan War, and was with D'Arcy Todd at Herat in 1839-40. He was then for some time Residency Surgeon at Lucknow, served in the Puiijab Campaign of l848-49,and on the annexation of the Punjab became Postmaster-General of the new province. Soon after he was appointed guardian and tutor to the Maharaja Dulip Sinh, the late King of the Punjab, and held that post from 1849 to 1858, when his ward came of age. He was knighted in November 1854; retired, after spending several years in England in charge of Dulip Sinh, on 15th April 1858, and died at Felixstowe on 18th October 1863.

Percival Barton Lord entered the Bombay Medical Service on 23rd November 1834. In 1836 he accompanied Captain, afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes on his commercial mission to Kabul, and visited Kunduz in 1837. When the Government of India determined to restore Shah Shuja to the throne of Kabul, in 1839, Lord was appointed one of the Political Assistants to Sir William Macnaughten, the Chief Political Officer. Lord came up to Kabul with the force from Peshawar, under Colonel Wade, in July 1839, and served as A.-D.-C. to Wade at the forcing of the Khyber Pass. He was then posted as Political Agent to Kunduz, in Afghan Turkestan, and passed the winter of 1839-40 in the caves of Bamian. He was killed on 2nd November 1840, at the battle of Parwandara, where Dost Mahomed defeated Shah Shuja's forces.

James Neil Dryburgh Login, a younger brother of Sir John Login entered the Bengal Service on 6th May 1842. He served in the Sutlej