Colesworthey Grant
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Colesworthey Grant was an English artist, writer and pioneer activist against cruelty to animals in India. Teaching himself art and sketching, he produced numerous portraits of many early East India C
Portrait from the frontispiece of the biography by Peary Chand Mitra (1881)
Memorial obelisk in Calcutta. The watering trough at the base and the lantern holders are now missing.
A portrait of the future Maharaja Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, 1850
A portrait of Sher Singh Attariwalla, 1850
Alexander Duff (missionary)
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Alexander Duff, was a Scottish missionary in India; where he played a large part in the development of higher education. He was a Moderator of the General Assembly and convener of the foreign missions
Colesworthey Grant
…owners and keepers. The founding meeting for the Society met on 4 October 1861 and was chaired by Archdeacon Pratt. The other twenty attendees included Alexander Duff, Mouat, Major C. Herbert, and several others including an Armenian (later the first non-European sheriff of Calcutta for 1866) Seth Arratoon Apcar…
Alexander Duff
Alexander Duff, 1806 - 1878. Scottish missionary and educationalist
Scottish Church College
The Calcutta University by Francis Frith. Duff's foundation of 1857