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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Elliot    
First Name(s)  Henry Miers    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1808    
Year of Death  1853    
Entry  I.C.S. : son of John Elliot : born March 1, 1808 : educated at Winchester : gained his appointment to the E.I. Co.'s Civil Service by open competition, 1826 : served in the N.W.P. : Secretary to the Board of Revenue : Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 1847 : accompanied Lord Hardinge and Lord Dalhousie to the Panjab : negotiated the treaty with the Sikhs, 1849 : K.C.B : brought out the first volume of a Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Muhammadan India, his materials for The History of India, as told by its own Historians, were edited after his death by Professor John Dowson (q.v.) and Sir E. C. Bayley, {q.v.) : his Memoirs of the History, Folklore, and Distribution of the Races of the N.W.P. were edited by Mr. J. Beames (q.v.) : he died at the Cape of Good Hope on his way home, Dec. 20, 1853. A mural tablet in St. Paul's Cathedral, at Calcutta, testifies to his remarkable abilities and attainments, his manly rectitude of conduct, his gentle disposition and noble qualities. He (like Augustus Cleveland) {q.v.) was called by Sir W. W. Hunter the dulce decus of the Bengal Civil Service.     
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