under Sir Frederick Halliday in the suppression of the Santal Rebellion in 1855, and was Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal for many years. He went to Burma in 1871, and during his absence from Bengal also acted, in 1875, as a member of the Supreme Council of India. From 1877 to 1882 he was the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and attained signal success in that capacity. On his retirement, in 1882, he was appointed to the Council of the Secretary of State in London—where he died in 1887.
4. SIR RIVERS THOMPSON, K.C.S.I.
1829-1890
It is interesting to note that all the Indian officials most closely associated with the history of the district of Nadia and the city of Krishnagar during the lifetime of Ramtanu Lahiri—including, among many others, Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson, Sir William James Herschel, baronet, Sir Charles Cecil Stevens, Sir Roper Lethbridge, Professor S. Lobb, and Mr William Benjamin Oldham were each and all numbered among Mr Lahiri’s intimate friends. Sir Rivers Thompson, who was the great-grandson of Warren Hastings, and in boyhood a renowned Eton "Blue," was the Collector and Magistrate of Nadia during the early period of Ramtanu’s retirement, and the friendship then formed lasted through life. In 1882 Sir Rivers became Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal; and was often known to take counsel with Mr Lahiri during the troubled times of his rule. He retired in 1887, and died at Gibraltar in 1890.
5. SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL, BART.
Sir William Herschel, who was a member of the Bengal Civil Service from 1853 to 1878, and is now living in retirement at Oxford, was the Judge of Nadia, and remarkably popular at Krishnagar at the time when Ramtanu was resident for the last time in that district. Mr Lahiri, to the last day of his life, spoke with warm affection and respect of the encouragement he had
