MEMOIR 



OF 



AUGUSTUS DE MOEGAN. 



SECTION I. 



AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN was born in the year 1806 at 1806. 

 Madura, in the Madras Presidency. His father Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel De Morgan had held appointments, some 

 of them staff situations, at several stations in India ; and 

 at the time of his fifth child's birth had chosen Madura 

 in preference to Yellore on account of its comparative 

 quietness. This choice was fortunate, for the battalion 

 of Colonel De Morgan's regiment commanded by Colonel 

 Fanshawe was at Yellore during the time of the mutiny 

 of the native troops ; and thus escaped the terrible out- 

 break in which several English officers lost their lives, 

 and Colonel Fanshawe was murdered. Even at the 

 quieter stations there was cause for alarm from the 

 general disaffection of the native troops, and my hus- 

 band's mother told how she, being then near her con- 

 finement, saw Colonel De Morgan, when the sentries 

 were changed, creep out of bed to listen to the Sepoys, 

 that he might learn if any plot were in agitation, 

 about which information might be given with the pass- 

 word. 



When Augustus was seven months old his father and Voyage to 

 mother came to England with three children, two 

 daughters and the infant. They sailed in the Duchess 



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