ELLIOT, SIR HENRY MIERS, K.C.B. one of fifteen children of Mr. John Elliot of 'Pimlico Lodge, Westminster. He was born in 1808; was educated at Winchester School and Oxford, from which he passed into the civil service of the E. I. Company in Bengal, and twice filled the post of Foreign Secretary. He published, in 1846, a Supplementary Glossary of Indian Terms. In 1849 he published the first volume of his Biblio graphical Index to the Historians of Mahornedan India. He collected many Arabic, Persian, and Urdu manuscripts for a History of India as told by its own Historians, but he died, aged 45, in 1853, at the Cape of Good Hope, before he could write more than the first volume. His widow finally entrusted the completion to Professor John Dowson, M.R.A.S., of the Staff College at Sand hurst ; and in the ten years 1867 to 1877 that learned man produced eight volumes, containing extracts illustrative of Indian and Central Asian history from about 200 authors. The eight large
volumes gave detailed accounts of 143 historical works, with extracts from their contents in English.. Besides the original text of nearly all the,se works, he collected a large number of local histories, biographies, collections of letters, geo graphical treatises, etc., illustrating Inditta, history, and some works on other subjects. It consists of 421 manuscripts, chiefly Persian, and a, large quantity of unbound papers, .oartly notiees on historical manuscripts preservedin various Indian libraries, and partly translations of historical worlas prepared for him. He was possessed of a vast' store of information, which his early death pre vented him giving to the public.