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Rh October 1879 at Bhagalpur. For forty seven years he had been one of the most prominent figures in Bengal and though he had never courted publicity and had been fearless in the expression on several occasions of anti-popular opinions, when his advice had been asked, he had won universal respect among all classes. Straightforward and honest, with a detestation of hypocrisy and falsehood, he was trusted and consulted by rich and poor, by officials and non-officials alike. Quiet and retiring, yet with a true sense of his own dignity and of the responsibilities of his position, he worthily upheld the great traditions of his house and has left behind him a name that takes high place in the roll call of the nobles of Bengal in the nineteenth century.