“ For many years he was the principal assistant of the late Sir William Hunter in his manifold literary undertakings in exposition of Indian life and history. He helped Hunter to compile the first general Gazetteer of India, published in nine volumes in 1881, and to revise and expand it in a second edition of 14 volumes in 1885-87. His chief work in the last few years was the cataloguing of the European MSS. relating to India in the India Office Library. The ample material he had collated remains to be put in final form for publication. ”

“ After being at school successively at Magdalen College School and Brighton College, he went to Winchester, in 1860, and became a colleger there in the following year and in 1867, he was elected a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1870, after a first-class in Classical Moderations and a first in 'Literæ Humaniores'. ”