Justice Prinsep : Henry Thoby (b.1836): educated at Harrow & Haileybury (see I.C.S.): arrived in India 1855: Asst. Magistrate Midnapur during the Mutiny & as Civil Officer accompanied a Naval Brigade with light guns sent from Midnapur to reinforce British troops in wiping out the Kols [“Kols, Bhīls & Muṇḍās, were tribes living in hills & jungles. – Advanced History of India, p.14] who had refused subjugation: in 1862 made Registrar of the Sadr Court in Jan. & of the High Court established on 1 July: held temporary appointments (in one of them, Chairman of the Official Emoluments Commission at Baruipur, Bengal, he was succeeded by Bankim Chandra) before becoming District Judge in 1867: Judicial Commissioner in Mysore 1875-6, officiating Judge of the Calcutta High Court on its establishment on July 1 of same year, confirmed 1878: presided over the Jury Commission 1893-4: joined the Gov.-Gen.’s Legislative Council to assist in revising the Codes of Criminal & Civil Procedure (see Penal Code): knighted 1894: Last of the Civilians educated at Haileybury, for 26 years he was District Grand Master of the Freemasons in Bengal. His father Henry Thoby (1792-1878) came to Bengal in 1809; was Asst. Secretary to Francis Rawdon, 1st Marquis of Hastings (see Hastings Street); introduced cultivation & manufacture of indigo into Bengal at a factory at Nilganj in 1779: wrote History of the Political & Military Transactions in India during the Administration of the Marquis of Hastings. [Buckland: 193, 321, 343-4]
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