cholera at one o'clock in the morning of 31st May 1842. Even in the incipient stage of the disease he guessed that its effects would be fatal; and so told his bearer to ask Mr Grey to have his coffin ready. His old pupil, Prasanna Kumar Mitra, then a qualified doctor, attended him, and did all in his power to check the course of the disease; but all his attempts were futile. On the second day Mr Hare asked Prasanna not to increase his sufferings by further application of blisters. The few remaining hours of his life he passed peacefully, and breathed his last on the 1st of June, before nightfall.
2. SIR FREDERICK JAMES HALLIDAY, K.C.B.
1806-1901
Sir Frederick Halliday, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and one of the greatest men in India during the period covered by this Biography, was a firm friend and patron of Mr Lahiri during the whole of his career. The events of his life are too well-known to demand any recapitulation in this place. His official life in India lasted from 1825 to 1859; and he took a leading part in such great historical events as the suppression of the great Mutiny, in the creation of the Lieutenant-Governorship of Bengal, in the suppression of the Santal Rebellion, in the introduction of the education policy founded on the famous Despatch of 1854, in the early formation of the railway system of Bengal and Upper India, and in various great reforms in rent and revenue legislation. He was a member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India from 1868 to 1886; and died on 22nd October 1901.
3. THE HON. SIR ASHLEY EDEN, K.C.S.I.
1831-1887
This famous Indian administrator, who throughout took a warm interest in the various reforms associated with the name of Ramtanu Lahiri, was more closely connected with the Government of Bengal than almost any other civil servant. He served
