Magistrate : born June 27, 1838 : educated at the Midnapur School, Hughli and Presidency Colleges : in 1858 he was the first native of India to take the B.A. degree, Calcutta : at once appointed to be a Deputy Magistrate, and became a prominent member of the Provincial service, acting for a time as Assistant Secretary to the Bengal Government. His reputation was made in literature, as the Bengali novelist of his time : his novels were numerous, and are said to be still popular : he brought out a literary magazine, 1872, and wrote the first Bengali historical novel, under the title of Durges Nandini. This was followed by Kapala Kandala, Mrinalini, and Bisha Brikka, which was translated into English and very favourably criticised by Professor Darmesteter : Debi Chandurani, Ananda Matha, and Krishna Kanter Will : wrote also on Hindu religion, Kirshna, the Vedas, and Hindu literature : made Rai Bahadur and C.I.E : retired from Government service in 1891 : died April 8, 1894.
CHATTERTON, THE RIGHT REV. EYRE (1863–)
Born July 22, 1863 : son of A. T. Chatterton : educated at Haileybury and Dublin University : ordained 1887 : Head of the Dublin University Mission to Chota-Nagpur, 1891–1900 : Bishop of Nagpur, Central Provinces, 1903 : D.D : author of The Story of Fifty Years' Mission in Chota-Nagpur : F.R.G.S.
CHAVANNES, EDOUARD (1865–)
Born Oct. 5, 1865, at Lyons : son of Emile Chavannes, engineer : educated at I'Ecole normale superieure : his work as a scholar has dealt principally with Chinese subjects, often in relation to India : entrusted with a scientific mission to China, 1889–93 : appointed Professor of the Chinese Language and Literature at the College de France, 1893 : Secretary of the Societe Asiatique, 1895 : Member of the Institute, 1903 : The following works by him treat of the travels of Chinese Buddhist pilgrims in India : I-tsing, Les religieux eminents, 1894 : Voyage de Song Yun dans l'Udyana et le Gandhara, (a translation) in the Bulletin de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme Orient, 1903, etc. : Documents sur les Tou-kine (Turks) occidentaux, 1903, treats of several questions relating to India. He has also written largely in the Journal Asiatique, on the Chinese inscriptions of Bodh Gaya in the Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, and in other periodicals.
CHAVASSE, WILLIAM (1785–1814)
An officer of the E.I. Co.'s service, who tried, with a companion, to explore the route of the 10,000 Greeks, as described in Xenophon's Anabasis. They were taken prisoners by a local chief near Bagdad, but released on payment of ransom. Chavasse died of fever there.
CHEAPE, SIR JOHN (1792–1875)
Son of John Cheape : born in 1792 : educated at Woolwich and Addiscombe : joined the Bengal Engineers in 1809, rose to be Maj-General in 1854 : was under Lord Hastings in the Pindari war, in the Nerbudda Field Force, 1817 : at the siege of Asirghar and in the Burmese war, 1824–6 : was Chief Engineer at the siege of Multan, 1848, and at Gujarat in the Panjab campaign : C.B. : in the second Burmese war of 1852–3, was second in command under General Godwin at first, and later, in 1853, commanded, and took Pegu : the provinces of Pegu and Tenasserim were annexed : K.C.B : A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : retired, 1857 : Colonel Commandant of Engineers, 1862 : G.C.B., 1865 : General, 1866 : died March 30, 1875.
CHELMSFORD, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS THESIGER, SECOND BARON (1827–1905)
Born May 31, 1827 : son of first Baron (Lord Chancellor, 1858–9) : educated at Eton : succeeded to title, 1879 : entered the Army in the Grenadier Guards, 1844 : served in the Crimea : Lt.-Colonel in the 95th regt. in the mutiny, in Central India : Adjutant-General in the Abyssinian campaign, 1867–8 : C.B. and A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : Adjutant-General in India : commanded the forces in the Kafir war, 1878 : succeeded his father, Oct. 1878 : at Isandhwala, Gingilhovo, Ulundi : Lieutenant of the Tower, 1884–9 : General, 1888 : G.C.B. : G.C.V.O : died April 9, 1905.
CHERRY, GEORGE FREDERICK (1761–1799)
B.C.S. : son of George Cherry : born 1761 : entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1778 :
