William Gifford Palgrave After university he went to India and was a lieutenant in the th Bombay regiment of the infantry From he was involved in missionary work in Southern India He returned to England in His work as a diplomat took him to Abyssinia Egypt and regions within the Ottoman Empire From Men of Mark a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate the Church in science literature and art the army navy law medicine etc Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper Conducted by G C Whitfield London