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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland) |
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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Cassels | | First Name(s) | Andrew | | Year of Birth | 1812 | | Year of Death | 1886 | | Entry | Of an old Scotch family, resident at Manchester : he opened in 1843 in Bombay the firm of Peel, Cassels & Co. : returned to England, 1851 : Director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, 1 861 : Member of the Council of India, 1874-84 : Vice-President, 1875, of the Society of Arts : a great authority on Indian cotton : died Aug. 2, 1886. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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