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CASSELS, WALTER RICHARD (1826–)
Son of Robert Cassels : educated privately and abroad : spent some years in Italy, and in 1856 joined the mercantile firm of Peel, Cassels & Co. in Bombay : was a Fellow of the Bombay University : a Member of the Legislative Council, Bombay, 1863 : left India in 1865 and devoted himself to literature : wrote poems, 1850 and 1856, Cotton in the Bombay Presidency, 1869; Supernatural Religion, 1874–6, and 1879 : The Gospel according to Peter, 1894, etc. etc.