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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Kaye    
First Name(s)  John William    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1814    
Year of Death  1876    
Entry  Born 1814 : son of Charles Kaye, solicitor to the Bank of England : educated at Eton and Addiscombe : went out to India in the Bengal Artillery, 1832-3 : retired from the Army, 1841, to adopt a literary career : established the Calcutta Review in 1844 ; edited the first 5 numbers, and wrote 47 articles in the first 50 numbers : returned to England, 1845 : in 1856 entered the Home Civil Service of the E. I. Co. : and in 1858 succeeded J. S. Mill as Secretary in the Political and Secret Department at the India Office : K.C.S.I., 1871 : retired, 1874 : was F.R.S. : died July 24, 1876. He wrote his History of the War in Afghanistan, 1851 ; the Administration of the East India Company, 1853 ; the Life and Correspondence of Lord Metcalfe, 1854 ; of Henry St. George Tucker, 1854; also of Sir John Malcolm, 1856; Christianity in India, 1859 ; The History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-8, 1864-76 : Lives of Indian Officers, 1867 : besides editing Buckle's Memoirs of the Services of the Bengal Artillery, 1852 ; Tucker's Memorials of Indian Government, 1853, and Taylor's People of India, 1868 : also contributed largely to periodical literature such as Writings of an Optimist etc.    
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