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a landscape painter : entered the Madras establishment of the E, I. Co.'s

military service : Captain, 1773 : Lt-Colonel, 1786 : several of his pictures of India are at the India Office : died 1794.

WARD, SIR HENRY GEORGE (1797–1860)

Governor : son of Robert Plumer Ward : born Feb. 29, 1797 : educated at Harrow : in the diplomatic service at Stockholm, the Hague, Madrid, Mexico, to 1827 : M.P., 1832–49 : Secretary to the Admiralty, 1846 : founded and edited the Weekly Chronicle : Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1849–55 : G.C.M.G., 1849 : Governor of Ceylon, 1855–60 : denuded Ceylon of English troops to send them to India in the mutiny, 1857 : Governor of Madras, July 5, 1860 : died of cholera at Madras, Aug. 2, 1860 : his statue erected at Kandy in Ceylon.

WARD, REV. WILLIAM (1769–1823)

Born Oct. 20, 1769 : son of John Ward, carpenter and builder : apprenticed to a printer : edited the Derby Mercury, the Stafford Advertiser and the Hull Advertiser : baptized at Hull, 1796 : studied at the Rev. Dr. Fawcett's training establishment at Ewold Hall : sent to India in 1799, with Joshua Marshman (q.v.) by the Baptist Missionary Committee : reached Serampur, the Danish settlement, Oct. 13, 1799 : joined there by W. Carey (q.v.) and established the Serampur Mission : Ward, besides preaching, super-intended the printing press and set the type of the Bengali translation of the New Testament, and printed translations of the Scriptures in more than 20 languages : the press was burnt in 1812 but re-established : Ward travelled widely in Europe and America, 1819–21, collecting money for the Mission College at Serampur : died there of cholera, March 7, 1823 : wrote on the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindus, 1811 : and a Memoir of Krishna-Pal, the first Hindu Convert in Bengal, 1823.

WARD, SIR WILLIAM ERSKINE (1838–)

I.C.S. : son of Hon. John Petty Ward, brother of Viscount Bangor : educated at Trinity College, Cambridge : went to Bengal in the Civil Service, 1861 : Judicial Commissioner of Lower Burma, 1888–91 : Chief Commissioner of Assam, officiating 1883 and 1885, and substantively 1891–6 : K.C.S.I., 1896.

WARRE, SIR HENRY (1819–1898)

General : son of Lt-General Sir William Warre : born 1819 : educated at Sandhurst : entered the Army, 1837 : General, 1881 : served in Canada and the Crimea : in the mutiny commanded the 57th regt. on the line of the Tapti river : in New Zealand, 1861–6 : C. in C., Bombay, 1878–81, and Member of Council Bombay : K.C.B., 1886 : retired, 1886 : died April 3, 1898.

WARREN, SIR CHARLES (1798–1866)

Son of John Warren : born Oct. 27, 1798 : joined the 30th foot, 1815 : served at Madras, 1816–9 : at the Cape, 1822–5 : again in India, 1830–8 : at Madras : and in the expedition against the Raja of Coorg, 1834, led an assault and was at the capture of stockades : Major, 1830 : was in China, 1841–4 : commanded the 55th regt. in the Crimea and a Brigade : in the battles : at Malta, 1856–61 : Maj-General, 1858 : K.C.B., 1865 : died Oct. 27, 1866.

WARREN, HENRY CLARKE (1854–1899)

Born in Boston, Nov, 18, 1854 : son of Samuel Dennis Warren : educated at Harvard College : B.A., 1879 : continued the study of Sanskrit under Professors Lanman and Bloomfield at Johns Hopkins University : returned to Boston, 1884 : suffered throughout life from the effects of an accident in childhood : studied Oriental Philosophy : devoted himself to Pali literature of Southern Buddhism : published Buddhism in Translations, in the Harvard Oriental series, 1896 drawing his material from original sources in Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga (way of purity) : he left his edition of this work, as a whole, unfinished : Treasurer of the American Oriental Society for years, and one of its Directors : died early in Jan. 1899.

WASOODEW, JANARDAN (1804?–1894)

Was senior Principal Sadr Amin at Dhoolia, in the Bombay Presidency, when

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