Edward Francis Elliot (died 11 June 1866) was a judge and the second son of Hugh Elliot, the Governor of Madras from 1814 to 1820. [1] He is remembered largely for his affair with Isabella Napier, the wife of Colonel Johnstone Napier that created a sensational scandal in colonial Madras. [2]
Hugh Elliot was a British diplomat and then a colonial governor.
William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Baron Napier FRSE was a British Royal Navy officer and trade envoy in China.
The Imperial Order of the Crown of India is an order in the British honours system. The Order was established by Queen Victoria in 1878, when she became Empress of India. The Order is open only to women; no new appointments have been made after the Partition of India in 1947. The Order was limited to British princesses, wives or female relatives of Indian princes and wives or female relatives of any person who held the office of:
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick, was a Scottish polyglot, diplomat and colonial administrator. He served as the British Minister to the United States from 1857 to 1859, Netherlands from 1859 to 1860, Russia from 1861 to 1864, Prussia from 1864 to 1866 and as the Governor of Madras from 1866 to 1872. He also acted as the Viceroy of India from February to May 1872.
Colonel Colin Mackenzie CB was Scottish army officer in the British East India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist. He surveyed southern India, making use of local interpreters and scholars to study religion, oral histories, inscriptions and other evidence initially out of personal interest and later as a surveyor. He was ordered to survey the Mysore region shortly after the British victory over Tipu Sultan in 1799 and produced the first maps of the region along with illustrations of the landscape and notes on archaeological landmarks. His collections consisting of thousands of manuscripts, inscriptions, translations, coins and paintings, which were acquired after his death by the India Office Library and are an important source for the study of Indian history. He was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 4 June 1815.
Besant Nagar is an affluent, residential neighborhood in South Chennai, India. It is located on the coast of the Elliot's Beach along the Bay of Bengal.
Sir Walter Elliot, KCSI was a Scottish civil servant in India. He was also an eminent orientalist, linguist, naturalist and ethnologist who worked mainly in the Presidency of Madras. Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the East India College in Haileybury and joined the Indian Civil Service at Madras in 1820 and worked on till 1860. He was invested Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in 1866.
Sir George Gough Arbuthnot was a businessman and civic leader in British India.
The Napier Museum is an art and natural history museum situated in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, India.
The Regional Institute of Ophthalmology and Government Ophthalmic Hospital Chennai, is the oldest eye hospital in the Indian subcontinent and in Asia. The institute was established in 1819 and is the second oldest hospital of its kind, next only to the Moorfield Eye Hospital in the United Kingdom.
Elliot's Beach is located in Besant Nagar, Chennai, India. It forms the end-point of the Marina Beach shore, and is named after Edward Elliot, onetime chief magistrate and superintendent of police, Madras. It has the Velankanni Church and the Ashtalakshmi Kovil nearby. In the colonial era, it was a fairly exclusive place limited to white people. As of 2016, there are many restaurants near the beach.
The 51st Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1755. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 105th Regiment of Foot to form the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1881.
Linnaeus Tripe was a British photographer, best known for his photographs of India and Burma taken in the 1850s.
John Henry Garstin (1838-1903) was a British civil servant and administrator who acted as the Governor of Madras from 1 December 1890 to 23 January 1891.
Chepauk Palace was the official residence of the Nawab of Arcot from 1768 to 1855. It is situated in the neighbourhood of Chepauk in Chennai, India and is constructed in the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture.
The May Day Park, originally known as Napier Park, is a park in the city of Chennai, India. It is located on Deputy Mayor Kabalamoorthy Road in Chintadripet.
Shabazz Bozie Napier is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted 24th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the 2014 NBA draft and immediately traded to the Miami Heat. Napier played college basketball for the Connecticut Huskies, and won two national championships in 2011 and 2014. Napier was a key player for the Huskies' 2010-11 NCAA championship team, as he made the Big East All Rookie team. Following his junior season, Napier was selected to the All-Big East first team.
Events in the year 1867 in India.
Events in the year 1855 in India.
Gilbert Elliot, D.D. was Dean of Bristol from 1850 until his death.
The 1838 Coronation Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours on the occasion of her coronation on 28 June 1838. The honours were published in The London Gazette on 20 July and 24 July 1838.
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