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College, Cambridge : appointed Assistant Inspr-General of Police in Bombay, 1877 : author of Short History of the Bombay Presidency, Tales of Ancient India.

COX, PERCY ZACHARIAH (1864–)

Major : son of Arthur Cox : born Nov. 20, 1864 : educated at Harrow and Sandhurst : joined the Army in 1884, and the Indian Staff Corps in 1889 : employed in the Political Department at Zaila, Somali coast, 1893 : Berbera, 1894–5 : H.B.M.'s Consul and Political Agent, Muscat, since 1899 : C.I.E. in 1902 : F.R.G.S. : F.Z.S.

COXHEAD, JAMES ALFRED (1851–)

Colonel : born 1851 : son of John Coxhead : educated at Merchant Taylors, Henley, and R.M.A., Woolwich : entered the Royal Artillery, 1872 : was Private Secretary and A.D.C. to Sir Henry Norman when Governor of Jamaica, 1883–7 : served at the Malakand Pass, 1895, and relief of Chitral : commanded the R.A. Indian Contingent in S. Africa till relief of Ladysmith : C.B. in 1900.

CRAIG, SIR JAMES HENRY (1748–1812)

Son of Henry Craig : born 1748 : entered the 30th regt. at 15, completed his military education on the Continent : served in N. America, 1774–81, was at Bunker's Hill and other actions : Adjutant-General in the Netherlands, 1794 : Maj-General : commanded a force to capture the Cape of Good Hope : on the arrival of Sir Alured Clarke's force from India the Dutch surrendered : Craig commanded at the Cape, 1795–7 : K.C.B., 1797 : commanded the Division at Benares, 1797–1802, in a difficult time, during the massacre there : Lt-General, 1801 : commanded in Italy and Sicily, 1805–6 : Governor-General of Canada, 1807–11 : General, 1812 : died Jan. 12, 1812.

CRANBROOK, GATHORNE GATHORNE-HARDY, FIRST EARL OF (1814–)

Born Oct. 1, 1814 : son of John Hardy, M.P. : educated at Shrewsbury and Oriel College, Oxford : Hon. Fellow of Oriel : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1840 : M.P. for Leominster, 1856–65 : for Oxford University, 1865–78 : made a Viscount, 1878 : an Earl, 1892 : Under Secretary for the Home Department, 1858–9, Secretary, 1867–8 : Secretary for War, 1874–8 : Secretary of State for India, March 30, 1878, to April 28, 1880 : President of the Council, 1885 and 1886–92 : G.C.S.L : P.C. : D.C.L. : LL.D. : D.L. : J. P.

CRAWFORD, SIR THOMAS (1824–1895)

Son of George Crawford : educated at Edinburgh : M.D. : entered the Army Medical Service, 1848 : in the Burmese war, 1852–3, at the capture of Rangoon and Bassein, and other actions : served in the Crimea : P.M.O. in the N. Mahratta country and the Dekkan in 1857–8 : Superintending Surgeon of the Sirhind circle : head of the A. M.D. in Ireland : Surgeon-General in India, in the second Afghan war : Director-General of the Army Medical Service, 1882–9 : K.C.B., 1885 : LL.D., Edinburgh : died Oct. 12, 1895.

CRAWFURD, JOHN (1783–1868)

Son of Samuel Crawfurd : born Aug. 13, 1783 : educated at Bowmore, and in medicine at Edinburgh : from 1803, served as an Army medical officer, for 5 years, chiefly in Upper India : transferred to Penang : studied the Malays : was with Lord Minto in the expedition to Java, 1811 : employed in diplomatic offices there, 1811–7 : wrote a History of the Indian Archipelago, 1820 : sent, in 1821, as Envoy to Siam and Cochin China : administered the Government of Singapore, 1823–6 : Commissioner of Pegu, 1826 : Envoy to the Court of Ava : retired to England, 1827 : wrote narratives of his missions, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language, 1852 : A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and adjacent Countries, 1856 : also, papers on ethnology for scientific journals : took an active part in Geographical and Ethnological Societies : was an unrivalled authority on the Eastern Archipelago : died May 11, 1868.

CREALOCK, HENRY HOPE (1831–1891)

Son of William Arthur Crealock : born March 31, 1831 : educated at Rugby entered the Army in the 90th regt., 1848 served in the Crimea, 1854–5 : D.A.Q.M.G. : and in China, 1857–8 : was in the Indian