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142 LIFE OF DR. RAM LALL CHtTCKERBUTTt. to help the poor and indigent won for hini the Iov€ and admiration of all. He was twice married. By th«  first wife he had 3 children, one son and two daught- ers, of whom Ram Lall is the eldest By his second wife he had five children of whom only one son and one daughter are still living. Ram Lall lost his mother at the tender age of 9 years. Thus he was deprived <A the tender care and affection of a loving mother at an age when he stood in need of them for the formation of his character, and his education was naturally neg- lected. HIS EDUCATION. Ram Lall was sent to a local Paisala at the age of 7 years where he remained till his fourteenth year. Babn Beni Kanta Mullick of the Mullick family of Krishna* ghur Was his Grurumokashoya. From his boyhood Ram Lall was zealous -and persevering in his endeavours to acquire knowledge, and showed an unwearied energy of body and mind, sharpness of intellect, and tender- ness of heart. His regard and esteem for his tutors Were exemplary and they still remain unabated. His relatives and his neighbours remarked that his appear- ance and features apparently bore the stamp of his future greatness. In his fourteenth year he joined the local Church Mission School which was then under the immediate control and supervision of the Rev. Mr. Dyson. This noble minded and Christian gentle- man had a very high opinion of Ram Lall's ability; and character. He used to deliver lectures onj morals, and Ram Lall felt great pleasure in attentively, hearing them and deriving much benefit from his teachings. The venerable Missionaries teachings were; profitably sown on a fertile soil. It was his strict ad- herence to the principles of morality and rectitude, which were thus instilled into his youthful mind, that ) made him rise to so eminent a position in life. They