Papers of Lt-Gen Sir Richard Strachey, Bengal Engineers 1836-75, member of Council of India 1875-89, Chairman, East India Railway Company from 1889; and of other members of the Strachey family, including Sir John Peter Grant, Bengal Civil Service, Li... 1781-1927

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of, 1831-1891

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Lucile was first published in 1860. From the description of Lucile : manuscript, [not before 1860] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612820220 Lytton, the son of novelist and dramatist Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873), was a British statesman and poet who published as Owen Meredith. From the description of Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton letter to Dear Madam, 1886. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 70254731 From the descr...

Kirkpatrick (Family : active 1750-2004)

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Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911

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Sir Joseph D. Hooker (1817-1911), botanist, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England. From the description of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker collection, 1828-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477374 English botanist and traveler. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London] Mar. 25 1878, to an unidentified recipient at the Daily Telegraph, 1878 Mar. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666429 Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was...

Canning, Charles John, 1812-1862

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First Vice-Roy of India. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Sir Henry Yule, 1859 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133453 Governor General of India during the Mutiny. From the description of Letters, 1857 April 4 and 20. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62684687 1836-1837 MP for Warwick; 1837 entered House of Lords as Viscount Canning of Kilbrahan; 1841-1845 under-secretary of s...

Ahmad Khan, Saiyid, Sir, 1817-1898, Knight, Muslim leader in India

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1855-1858 Assistant Magistrate of Bijnor; 1858-1867 Magistrate in Moradabad, Ghazipur, and Aligarh; 1867-1876 Judge of the small-cause court in Benares. Epithet: Muslim leader in India Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x000053 ...

Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, 1867-1942, countess of Balfour, biographer and editor

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Edited her father's official papers when he served as viceroy of India; editor, The History of Lord Lytton's Indian Administration, 1876-1880; 1894 published a selection of her father's poetry; 1906 biographer and editor, The Personal and Literary Letters of Robert, First Earl of Lytton; c 1910- supporter of the suffrage movement; 1925 biographer and editor, the letters of Constance Lytton. Epithet: biographer and editor Title: countess of Balfour ...

Anderson, William, 1804-1869, Colonel

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1820-1855 Bengal Artillery; 1838-1842 fought in the First Anglo-Afghan War; 1843-1854 powder agent at Ichapur, Bengal. Epithet: Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x0000a5 ...

Bengal Civil Service (active 1745-1970)

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Yule, Henry, Sir, Colonel

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Epithet: Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x0001af ...

Grant, Henrietta, 11th of Rothiemurchus, daughter of Sir J P Grant

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Epithet: née Plowden British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x0000e3 Epithet: daughter of Sir J P Grant Title: 11th of Rothiemurchus British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x000207 ...

Bengal Engineers (active 1764-1935)

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Strachey (Family : active 1756-1939 : Subject of Mss Eur F82)

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Ritchie, Richmond Thackeray Willoughby, Sir, Under Sec of State for India

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Epithet: Under Sec of State for India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x000266 ...

Cordery, John Graham, 1833-1900, civil servant in India

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1883–1888 Resident at Hyderabad. Epithet: civil servant in India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x000049 ...

Strachey, John

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Epithet: of Egerton MS 2410 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000444.0x00012c Epithet: Knight 1872; GCSI 1878 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000444.0x000129 Epithet: of Add MS 34730 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10000...

Courtenay, Francis Foljambe, active 1848-1853, civil servant in India

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c 1848-c 1853 private secretary to James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie, as Governor-General of India. Epithet: civil servant in India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x0001ac ...

Wheler, Edward, Subject of Mss Eur D546

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Epithet: of the E India Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x0000c6 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur D546 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x0000bb ...

Grant, John Peter, Sir, 1807-1893

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1848 secretary to the government of Bengal; 1853-1854 foreign and home secretary to the government of India; 1854-1859 member of the supreme council; 1857 lieutenant-governor of the Central Provinces; 1859-1862 lieutenant-governor of Bengal; 1862 KCB; 1866-1874 governor of Jamaica; 1874 GCMG Epithet: colonial governor Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x000323 ...

Broun-Ramsay, James Andrew, formerly Ramsay Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India

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Epithet: formerly Ramsay Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000233 ...

Colvile, James William, Sir, 1810-1880, Knight, judge

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1832 admitted to the Inner Temple; 1835 called to the Bar; 1835-1845 equity draftsman, Lincoln's Inn; 1845 advocate-general of Bengal; 1848 puisne judge of the supreme court of Bengal, knighthood; 1855-1859 chief justice; c1859 privy councillor; 1865 member (later judge) of the council's judicial committee; 1866 bencher of the Inner Temple; 1875 Fellow of the Royal Society. Epithet: judge Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Cata...

Aligarh Muslim University (active 1781-1979)

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East Indian Railway (active 1781-1954)

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Colvile, Frances Elinor, 1838-1919, née Grant, wife of Sir James William Colvile

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1857 married Sir James William Colvile. Epithet: née Grant, wife of Sir James William Colvile British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000305 ...

Allman, Hannah Louisa, -1890

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Halifax, Charles Wood, Viscount, 1800-1885

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1826 Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby; 1831 Member of Parliament for Wareham; 1832-1865 Member of Parliament for Halifax; 1832 Joint Secretary to the Treasury; 1835 Secretary to the Admiralty; 1846-1852 Chancellor of the Exchequer; 1852-1855 President of the Board of Control; 1855-1858 First Lord of the Admiralty; 1856 GCB; 1859-1866 Secretary of State for India; 1865 Member of Parliament for Ripon; 1870-1874 Lord Privy Seal. Epithet: statesman Title: 1...

Carlyle, Thomas

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F127 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x000388 Epithet: historian, d1881 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000205 ...

Strachey, Jane Maria, Lady, née Grant

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Epithet: née Grant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x00020c ...

Bourke, Richard Southwell, 1822-1872, 6th Earl Mayo, politician, Viceroy of India

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1845 visited Russia; 1847 took part in famine relief in Ireland; 1847-1852 Member of Parliament for county Kildare; 1849 became Lord Naas; 1852-1857 Member of Parliament for Coleraine; 1852-1868 chief secretary for Ireland; 1857-1868 Member of Parliament for Cockermouth; 1867 earldom; 1869-1872 Viceroy of India; 1872 assasinated. Epithet: politician, Viceroy of India Title: 6th Earl Mayo British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person ...

Strachey, Richard, Sir, 1817-1908

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Lieutenant general of the Royal Bengal Engineers. From the description of Letters, 1867-1903. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41546360 From the description of Papers, 1871-1905. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20400113 1836-1839 2nd lieutenant, Bombay Engineers; 1839 Bengal Engineers; 1841 lieutenant; 1843 executive engineer, Ganges Canal; 1854 captain; 1854 elected fellow of the Royal Society; 1856 under-secretary, Public ...

Plowden (Family : active 1781-1927)

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Plowden, Richard Chicheley, Director of the E India Co

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Epithet: Director of the E India Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000408.0x0001e3 ...

Macleod, John Macpherson, Sir, Subject of Mss Eur F127

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F127 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x000012 ...

Karr, Walter Scott Seton-, 1822-1910, civil servant in India

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Indian Civil Service; 1868 Secretary to the Government of India: President of the Indigo Commission. Epithet: civil servant in India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x00009d ...

Lawrence, John Laird Mair, 1811-1879

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India settlement officer; 1846 commissionership, Trans-Sutlej States; 1856 KCB; 1857 GCB; 1861 Knight Companion of the Order of the Star of India; 1864-1869 Viceroy of India. Title: 1st Baronet Lawrence British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x0001c8 ...

Maine, Henry James Sumner, Sir, Creator of Mss Eur C179

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Epithet: Creator of Mss Eur C179 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x00004e Epithet: KCSI, Master of Trinity Hall Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x00007d ...

Plowden, Trevor John Chicheley

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Ricketts, Henry, Sir

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Selwyn, William, 1806-1875

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British divine, scholar, and author. From the description of Letter to Sir William Maynard Gomm, 1866. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122560100 ...

Allman, George James, 1812-1898

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1844 regius professor of botany, Dublin University; 1855 regius professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh; 1874 President of the Linnean Society; 1879 President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Epithet: naturalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x000196 ...

Strachey, Edward, Sir, 3rd Baronet

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Title: 3rd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x000330 ...

Curzon, George Nathaniel, , 1859-1925

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George Nathaniel Curzon was born at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, in 1859. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1885, he was appointed assistant private secretary to the Marquis of Salisbury and in the same year contested the parliamentary seat for South Derbyshire. In 1886, he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Southport division of Lancashire, serving between 1891 and 1892 as under-secretary of state for India, and from 1895 to 1898, as ...

Grant (Family : active 1781-1927 : Subject of Mss Eur F127)

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Freshfield, Douglas William, active 1837-1870, geographer

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F127 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x000379 Epithet: geographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000301.0x000127 ...

Indian Civil Service (active 1696-1998)

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Hooker, William Jackson

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Epithet: Director of Kew Gardens British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0003ac Epithet: Creator of Mss Eur A170 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000299 ...

Bruce, James, 1811-1863, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, Viceroy of India

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1841-1842 Member of Parliament for Southampton; 1842-1846 Govenor of Jamaica; 1846-1854 Govenor-in-chief of British North America; 1857-1859 and 1860-1861 high commissioner to China and plenipotentiary in Japan; 1858 GCB; 1859-1860 Postmaster general; 1859-1862 lord rector of the University of Glasgow; 1861-1863 Viceroy of India Epithet: Viceroy of India Title: 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine British Library Archives and Manuscripts ...