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ham. The easy and bloodless capture of the native pahs, which 

 resulted from a systematic employment of the spade, proved at once 

 to their defenders the hopelessness of further resistance. 



He became a Brevet- Colonel in 1830, a Colonel of Engineers in 

 1831, and a Major-General in the Army in 1841. He received the 

 honorary distinction of D.C.L. at Oxford in 1844 ; and in 1846, on 

 relinquishing the appointment of Inspector-General of Railways, he 

 was made a K.C.B. for general services. He held the appointment 

 of Public Examiner at the East India Company's Military Seminary 

 at Addiscombe for sixteen years, up to the year 1855, and took an 

 active part in its management, contributing materially to the high 

 standard which it reached and at which it was maintained. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as far back as 1 8 1 6 ; he was 

 also of old standing in the Astronomical, the Geological, the Geogra- 

 phical, the Statistical, and other societies ; and he lost no oppor- 

 tunity of contributing to the advancement of practical science. He 

 was also a liberal subscriber to a great number of charitable 

 institutions. 



He held no public office after 1855, but occupied himself chiefly 

 in re-editing his works, superintending the construction of pontoon 

 equipages, and in other matters connected with his profession, as well 

 as in advocating the introduction of decimal coinage, devoting a 

 large proportion of his time to the benefit or advancement of his 

 friends and relations. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant- 

 General on the llth of November 1851, and to that of General on 

 the 20th of September 1860. 



He was twice married. His first wife died of consumption in a 

 few months, his second died in 1848. Of six children, three 

 survive him. He was well and hearty up to within a week of his 

 death ; but his long life of labour was brought to a close at his 

 residence at 12 Norfolk Crescent, Hyde Park, from congestion of 

 the lungs, on the 19th of April 1861. 



JOHN T. QUEKETT was born at Langport, Somersetshire, in the 

 year 1815; he was the fourth son of the late Mr. Quekett, head 

 master of the Langport Grammar School, and received his early 

 education in that establishment. Being intended for the medical 

 profession, he was sent to London and apprenticed to his brother, 



