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# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blunt, Sir Charles William, Baronet

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​BLUNT, SIR CHARLES WILLIAM, BARONET (1731–1802)
Of Cleery, Hants: born 1731: son of Sir Henry Blunt, second Baronet, whom he succeeded in 1759: lived in Great Ormonde St. till about 1767: at Odiham, Hants, till about 1775: at Blunt House, Croydon, to about 1780: went out as a writer in the E. I. Co.'s service to India, 20 years before his death: obtained a lucrative appointment in the bullock contract, besides a share in the Post-office: formed honourable and advantageous connexions: died Sep, 27, 1802, at Pulta, near Calcutta, leaving £100,000, three-fourths of it. to his eldest son, ​C. R. Blunt, fourth Baronet (born 1778: M.P. for Lewes, 1832): his portrait by Barclay is in the possession of his grandson, the present Baronet: letters from him are among the Hastings papers in the British Museum: one of his daughters married Sir C. Imhoff, stepson of Warren Hastings: he built a mausoleum for the sepulture of his race-horses, which was still to be seen in India about 1845: many pictures of his horses are preserved.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Boden, Joseph

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​BODEN, JOSEPH ( ? –1811)
Entered the E. I. Co.'s Bombay Native Army in 1781: Lt-Colonel 1806: held appointments on the Staff in Bombay: was Member of the Military Board: retired in 1807 and died Nov. 21, 1811. Though not a Sanskrit scholar, and not a writer, he left a large sum of money to found, after his daughter's death, a professorship of Sanskrit at Oxford. H. H. Wilson (q.v.) was the first professor appointed, in 1832.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blunt, Charles Harris

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​BLUNT, CHARLES HARRIS (1824–1900)
Maj-General: entered the Army, 1842: was in the Bengal Horse Artillery: was in the Satlaj campaign, 1846, at Sobraon: also in the Panjab campaign: in the mutiny, raised "Blunt's Horse," was at the siege of Delhi, battle of Najafghar, action at Agra, (Lord Clyde's) relief of Lucknow, where he was the hero of a very dashing performance with the guns at the Sikandarbagh, at the action of Shamsabad, the capture of the fort and town of Kalpi: Brevets of Major and Colonel: C.B: Lord Roberts refers to his splendid courage in leading his guns in the advance on Lucknow: his troops suffered severely at Delhi and Agra, "seldom, if ever, has a battery and its commander had a grander record to show": died. Aug 15, 1900.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blyth, Edward

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​BLYTH, EDWARD (1810–1873)
Born Dec. 23, 1810: was a druggist at Tooting, but Natural History was the absorbing study of his life: in 1841 he was appointed Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: retired in 1862: wrote a great number of reports and papers on Zoology, especially on birds and mammals, in the Society's journals and in newspapers: he was said to have been the founder of the science of Zoology in India: his work was highly estimated by Darwin and Gould: died Dec. 27, 1873.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blanford, William Thomas

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​BLANFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1832–1905)
Born Oct. 7, 1832: son of William, Blanford: educated at the Royal School' of Mines (Scholar,) and Mining Academy, Freiburg: in the Geological Survey of India, 1855–82: Geologist of the Abyssinian Expedition up to Magdala, 1868: on the Persian Boundary Commission, 1872: President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1878–9: of the Geological Society, 1888–90: received its Wollaston medal, 1883: Treasurer of the Society: Vice-President of the Royal Society, 1892–3, 1901–3: published works on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia and Persia; a manual of Geology on India, 1879: President of the Geological section of the British Association meeting in Canada, 1884: edited The Fauna of British India: was author of the Mammalia, 1888–91, and of the Birds, 1895, 1898: C.I.E., 1904: LL.D. Montreal, and F.R.S., 1874: on its Council and Vice-President: died June 23. 1905.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bliss, Sir Henry William

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​BLISS, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (1840–)
I.C.S.: son of Rev. James Bliss: born 1840: educated at Merton, Oxford, B.A. joined the Madras Civil Service, 1863: after holding subordinate appointments, was Commissioner of Salt Revenue and Abkari Revenue, 1878: on special duty on these subjects: Fellow of the Madras University, 1882: Member of the Finance Committee, 1886: Member of the Board of Revenue, 1887: first Member, 1889: C.I.E., 1889: Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council, 1890–2: Member of Council, Madras, 1893–8: K.C.I.E., 1897: retired, 1898: Member of the London County Council for the Holborn Division, 1901.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna

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​BLAVATSKY, HELENA PETROVNA (1831–1891)
Born at Ekaterinoslav: daughter of Colonel Peter Hahn, of a noble family of Mechlenburg, settled in Russia: married at 17 a husband of 60, but they soon separated: she travelled widely, in rope, America and Asia, round the Cape to Bombay: after an unsuccessful attempt to enter Tibet, via Nipal, she entered it in' disguise in 1855, via Kashmir, was lost in the desert and brought back to the frontier: after numerous adventures and further travels in India, she was in the United States in 1873 and for 6 years in N. York, becoming a naturalized American: she studied spiritualism, and in 1875 founded, with Colonel Olcott, the Theosophical Society: wrote books and pamphlets in support of her theories: settled in London, 1887: brought out a magazine, Lucifer, the Light-bringer: wrote The Secret Doctrine, .the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, 1888, and The Key of Philosophy, 1889: died in London, May 8, 1891.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carkesse, James

​CARKESSE, JAMES (fl. 1679), verse writer, was educated at Westminster School, whence in 1652 he was elected to a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford. It seems probable that he joined the Roman catholic church before 1679, in which year he published a curious volume of doggerel rhymes, entitled 'Lucida Intervalla: containing divers miscellaneous Poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem, by the Doctor's Patient Extraordinary,' London, 4to. The doctors name was Thomas Allen. It is clear that the writer was a very fit subject for a lunatic asylum.
[Welch's Alumni Westmon. 139; Notes and Queries, 1st series, ii. 87; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn); Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.]
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# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Beckwith, Sir Thomas Sydney

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​BECKWITH, SIR THOMAS SYDNEY (1772–1831)
Son of Maj-General J. Beckwith: joined the 71st regt. in India in 1791, then under Col. D. Baird (q.v.): was at the siege of Seringapatam by Lord Cornwallis in 1792 and the taking of Pondicherry by Baird in 1793: served also in Ceylon, at Copenhagen, at Hanover, in Denmark, the Peninsula, Canada: Maj-General and K.C.B., 1814: Lt-General, 1830: was appointed C. in C. at Bombay in 1829: died of fever at Mahableshwar, Jan. 19, 1831.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Beddome, Richard Henry

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​BEDDOME, RICHARD HENRY (1830–)
Born May 11, 1830: son of R. B. Beddome: educated at Charterhouse: joined the Madras Army: was Quarter-master and Interpreter of his regiment, 42nd Infantry, 1856: Assistant Conservator of Forests, Madras, 1857: Head of the Madras Forest Department, 1860 to 1882, when he retired as Colonel: Fellow of the Madras University, 1880: author of The Flora Sylvatica of the Madras Presidency, (400 trees). The Ferns of Southern India, (345 plates). Hand-book to the Ferns of India, besides pamphlets on new reptiles and land shells discovered by him in India.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Belli, John

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​BELLI, JOHN ( ? - ? )
Born in England, of a noble Italian family, probably of Viterbo, his mother being a lady of Spanish origin named Bivar: entered the E. I. Co's. service and became Private Secretary to Warren Hastings, about 1770–5: he married a sister of Sir Charles Cockerell; his daughters married Dr. Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury; E. Horsley Palmer, M.P. and Sir C. E. Carrington (q.v.)
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Benares, Balwant Singh, Raja of

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​ BENARES, BALWANT SINGH, RAJA OF (1717–?1770)
Son of Mansa Ram: and father of Chait Singh (q.v.): all of the Dhuinhar caste: succeeded his father, 1740: died Aug. 19 1770, being succeeded by Chait Singh: Balwant was the real founder and consolidator of the Benares Raj.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bell, Rev. Dr. Andrew, D.D.

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​BELL, REV. DR. ANDREW, D.D. (1753–1832)
"The eminent founder of the Madras system of education": son of a barber at St. Andrew's: born March 27, 1753: educated at St. Andrew's School and University: ordained, 1784: M.D.: tutor in Virginia, 1774–9: went to India, 1787: in 2 years he had obtained and held simultaneously eight Army chaplaincies: in 1789 he was Chaplain of St. Mary's, Madras, and Superintendent of the Madras Male Orphan Asylum, and there introduced a system of mutual instruction by the boys, who were thus alternately learners and teachers, one half of the class teaching the other half: accompanied]Genl. Braithwaite to capture of Pondicherry, 1793: with a pension from the E.I.Co.,he returned to England in 1797, and laboured hard to spread his system at home and abroad: it was adopted in places: Rector of Swanage, 1801, Master of Sherbinrn Hospital, 1809: as Superintendent, in 1811, of the National Society for promoting the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church, he could advance his Madras system, but it could not be an entire system of education: he was made LL.D: also a Prebendary of Westminister: gave £120,000 to found a College at St. Andrew's: died Jan. 27, 1832, and was buried in Westminster Abbey: a tablet erected to his memory.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bellew, Rev. John Chippendall Montesquieu

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​BELLEW, REV. JOHN CHIPPENDALL MONTESQUIEU (1823–1874)
Son of Capt. R. Higgins: born Aug. 3, 1823: educated at Lancaster, and St.Mary's Hall, Oxford: took his mother's family name in 1844: ordained in 1848: went to Calcutta in 1851 and became Chaplain of St. John's Church for 4 years: edited there the Bengal Hurkaru: returning to England in 1855, he became a popular preacher in London, but in 1868 was a convert to Roman Catholicism, and supported himself by public readings and literary work: he had great success as a master of elocution and from his handsome appearance: he died June 19, 1874.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Benares, Chait Singh, Raja of

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​BENARES, CHAIT SINGH, RAJA OF ( ? –1810)
Son of Balwant Singh, the Raja of Benares, who died in 1770, when Chait Singh became Raja: in 1775 was declared independent of Oudh (of which he had been a vassal) and made tributary to the English Govermnent on a fixed annual payment: in 1778, Warren Hastings demanded from him, besides the annual tribute, five lakhs of rupees, which were recovered from him with the help of troops. Similar demands were made from him in 1779 and 1780: in the latter year, a contingent of men was demanded, according to his tenure as Raja, for the public service: he evaded, and did not furnish a single man: a fine of 50 lakhs was imposed, and Warren Hastings personally went to Benares, to levy the fine on Chait Singh, who received him submissively. Chait Singh was made, Aug. 16, 1781, a prisoner in his own palace at Benares, but his people rose, attacked and killed the guards. In the confusion, Chait Singh escaped. Hastings withdrew to Chunar: ​Major Popham advanced in force, and defeated Chait Singh's forces at Benares, Latifpur and Bijaighar: the tribute was doubled, when a nephew of Chait Singh was made Raja. Chait Singh, with a few followers, took refuge in Gwalior and lived there until his death on March 29, 1810.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bellew, Henry Walter

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​BELLEW, HENRY WALTER (1834–1892)
Son of Capt. H. W. Bellew, of the Bengal Army: born Aug. 30, 1834: educated at St. George's Hospital, London M.D.: in the Crimean war: went to India in the Bengal Medical service, 1856: with Sir H. B. Lumsden's (q.v.) mission to Kandahar in 1857–8: in the Umbeyla campaign: Civil Surgeon of Peshawar: interpreter at the Umbala darbar of 1869 with the Amir Shir Ali: was on Sir R. Pollock's mission to Seistan, 1871, and Sir T. D. Forsyth's mission to Kashgar and Yarkand, 1873–4: C.S.L in 1873: Chief Political officer at Kabul in the second Afghan war: retired as Surgeon-General, 1886: died July 26, 1892: he had a faculty for learning Oriental languages, and wrote about them as well as about medical subjects and the countries which he had visited and their inhabitants.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Beiderlinden, Right Rev. Bernard, D.D.

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​BEIDERLINDEN, RIGHT REV. BERNARD, D.D. (1842–)
German: born at Miinster, Aug. 18, 1842: entered the Society of Jesus, Aug. 23, 1865: arrived in India, Nov. 6, 1879: occupied various posts in colleges, etc., became Superior of the Jesuit Mission, Oct. 4, 1882: nominated first Catholic Bishop of Poona, Suffragan of Bombay, Dec. 22, 1886, consecrated, Feb. 27, 1887, at Allahabad: still in occupation of the See.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bell, Thomas Evans

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​BELL, THOMAS EVANS (1825–1887)
Major: born Nov. 11,1825: son of William Bell: educated at Wandsworth: went
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bentinck, Henry John William

​BENTINCK, Sir HENRY JOHN WILLIAM (1796–1878), general, youngest son of Major-general John Charles Bentinck, by Jemima Helena, eldest daughter of Frederick Christian Rynhart Ginkel, fifth earl of Athlone, was born on 8 Sept. 1796, entered the Coldstream Guards as an ensign 25 March 1813, and became lieutenant-colonel of his regiment 22 August 1851. He left England with the guards 22 Feb. 1854, and commanded that brigade during the Eastern campaign until 8 Nov. He was thus engaged in the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman (where he was wounded in the arm), the siege of Sebastopol, and in support of the second division at the repulse of the sortie of 26 Oct. He was appointed to the fourth division after the fall of Sir George Cathcart, but was prevented by a wound and ill-health from joining it until 1 June 1855; he continued in command until 10 Oct. From 11 Oct. 1854 until his death he was colonel of the 28th foot. He served as aide-de-camp to the Queen 1841–54, and was groom-in-waiting 1859–67. On his return from the Crimea he was created a K.C.B. 5 July 1855, and was promoted to the rank of general 8 Dec. 1867. His death took place at 35 Grosvenor Street, London, 29 Sept. 1875, and hw was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery on 5 Oct. He married, 10 March 1829, Renira Antoinette, a daughter of Admiral Sir James Hawkins Whitshed, Bart.
[Army Lists, &c.]
G. C. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bentham, Thomas

1904 Errata appended.
​BENTHAM, THOMAS (1513–1578), bishop, was born at Sherburn, Yorkshine, in 1512-13. He was admitted perpetual fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, on 10 Nov. 1546, proceeded, M.A. 1547, and 'about that time did solely addict his mind to the study of theology and to the learning of the Hebrew tongue,' in which last he was most excellent, as in those of Greek and Latin.' On the accession of Mary he was turned out of his fellowship 'for his forward and malapert zeal against the catholic religion in the time of Edward VI, by the visitors appointed by her to regulate the university (Life of Jewell, 1573). He retired to Zurich and afterwards to Basle, and became preacher to the exiles there, to whom he delivered an exposition of the Acts of the Apostles. Being recalled by some of the brethren, he was made superintendent of them all in London, and continued among them 'in a timorous condition for some time.' Heylin (Hist. of the Reformation) says: 'Mr. Bentham continued minister of the protestant congregation in London till Queen Mary died,' and that 'by the encouragement and constant preaching of this pious man, the protestant party did not only stand to their former principles, but were resolved to suffer whatsoever could be laid on them rather than forfeit a good conscience.' On Elizabeth's succession he was appointed bishop of Lichfield and Coventry after Dr. Ralph Bayne. This was in 1559, in his forty-sixth year. In 1565 he was created D.D. He was in great repute for learning. He died at Eccleshall in Staffordshire on 21 (not 19, as Willis says) Feb. 1578, leaving a widow, Matilda. Bishop Bentham is now mainly remembered as having translated Ezekiel and Daniel (1568) in the Bishops' Bible. The initials T. C. L. stand for Thomas, Coventry and Lichfield. On his monumental toml) at Eccleshall, showing his own effigies and those of his wife and four children, is still to be read this inscription:
Hic jacet in tumlæ Benthamus episcopus ille
Doctor divinus largus patiens pius almus.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 816–17; Willis's Cathedrals; Anderson's and Eadie's Hist. of Bible; The Bishops' Bible; Le Neve's Fasti, i. 556.]
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Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.23 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barrow, William

​BARROW, WILLIAM (1754–1836), archdeacon of Nottingham, sprang from a Westmoreland family, and proceeded in due time to Queen's College, Oxford, where in 1778 he gained the chancellor's English essay on academical education. This essay was afterwards considerably enlarged and published as ‘An Essay on Education; in which are particularly considered the Merits and the Defects of the Discipline and Instruction in our Academies,’ 2 vols., 1802 (and again in 1804). In 1799 he took the degree of D.C.L., and preached as the Bampton lectures before the university, ‘Answers to some Popular Objections against the Necessity or the Credibility of the Christian Revelation.’ He was much indebted to Paley's writings for the argument here pursued, and the motto of the lectures, ‘Neque se ab doctissimis neque ab indoctissimis legi velle,’ showed (to use his own words) that they were ‘rather sermons for general perusal than lectures for a learned society.’ In them he popularises the arguments for the necessity and probability of a divine revelation to man, shows that the doctrines and precepts of the christian religion are favourable to the enjoyments of the present life (‘not Christianity but intemperance being hostile to felicity’), and, with regard to prayer, deems it probable that ‘the Almighty in consequence of our prayers interferes with the laws of nature.’ He further shows that the course of nature is regular, but our conduct irregular, and that ‘reason is not degraded by revelation but assisted and exalted, her prerogative not being taken from her but limited and ascertained.’ His brother Richard was already vicar-choral of Southwell (a post which he held for the long period of sixty-four years), and in 1815 Barrow himself became prebendary of Eaton in the collegiate church of that place. In 1821 he was vicar-general of the same church, and was appointed on 3 April 1830 archdeacon of Nottingham. This dignity was not separated at that time from the province of York, and was held by Barrow for two years, until age and infirmity caused him to resign it to Dr. G. Wilkins in 1832. Barrow married Mrs. E. A. Williams, who died childless in 1823. He died 19 April 1836, aged 82. There is a tablet to his memory in the nave of Southwell Collegiate Church. His nephew, W. H. Barrow, was for many years M.P. for South Notts.
Barrow was a F.S.A., and, in addition to what has been named, published two sermons which had been preached at Southwell before the loyal volunteers of that place during the panic of 1803–4, and another on ‘Pecuniary Contributions for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge;’ a treatise on the ‘Expediency of translating our Scriptures into several of the Oriental Languages and the means of rendering those Translations useful’ (1808), ‘Familiar Dissertations on ​Theological and Moral Subjects’ (1819), and three volumes of ‘Familiar Sermons’ (1818–21).
M. G. W.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barrow, Philip

​BARROW or BARROUGH, PHILIP (fl. 1590), medical writer, son of John Barrow, of the county of Suffolk, obtained from the university of Cambridge, in 1559, a license to practise chirurgery, and in 1572 a similar license to practise physic. It is probable that he practised his profession in London. He is the author of the ‘Method of Phisicke, containing the Causes, Signs, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Man's Body from head to foot. Whereunto is added the form and rule of working remedies and medicines, which our Physitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantity, and names of such medicines,’ London, 1590, 4to. This popular work, which is dedicated to the author's ‘singular good lord and master,’ the Lord Burghley, reached at least its seventh edition in 1652. The impression of 1617 is called the fifth edition. There is in the British Museum an interleaved copy of it, with many manuscript notes.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barrow, Thomas

​BARROW, THOMAS (1747–1813), Jesuit, was born at Eccleston near Preston on 17 Sept. 1747, and educated at St. Omer. He entered the Society of Jesus at Watten in 1764. After the temporary suppression of the society in 1773 he rendered great services to the new English Academy at Liège, and subsequently to Stonyhurst College. At the peace of Amiens he was sent to Liège to look after the property of his brethren, as well as the interests of the nuns of the Holy Sepulchre (now settled at New Hall, Chelmsford). He died at Liège on 12 June 1813. Dr. Oliver calls him a prodigy of learning, but the only published specimens of his erudition are two sets of verses in Hebrew and Greek, in honour, respectively, of the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Francis Charles de Velbruck (1772), and Francis Anthony de Mean, the last Prince-Bishop of Liège (1792).
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