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Date transcribed | 2011-05-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Kaye | | First Name(s) | John William | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1814 | | Year of Death | 1876 | | Entry | Born 1814 : son of Charles Kaye, solicitor to the Bank of England : educated at Eton and Addiscombe : went out to India in the Bengal Artillery, 1832-3 : retired from the Army, 1841, to adopt a literary career : established the Calcutta Review in 1844 ; edited the first 5 numbers, and wrote 47 articles in the first 50 numbers : returned to England, 1845 : in 1856 entered the Home Civil Service of the E. I. Co. : and in 1858 succeeded J. S. Mill as Secretary in the Political and Secret Department at the India Office : K.C.S.I., 1871 : retired, 1874 : was F.R.S. : died July 24, 1876. He wrote his History of the War in Afghanistan, 1851 ; the Administration of the East India Company, 1853 ; the Life and Correspondence of Lord Metcalfe, 1854 ; of Henry St. George Tucker, 1854; also of Sir John Malcolm, 1856; Christianity in India, 1859 ; The History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-8, 1864-76 : Lives of Indian Officers, 1867 : besides editing Buckle's Memoirs of the Services of the Bengal Artillery, 1852 ; Tucker's Memorials of Indian Government, 1853, and Taylor's People of India, 1868 : also contributed largely to periodical literature such as Writings of an Optimist etc. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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