GEORGE

See also:

• BRUCE
• BRUCE, ALEXANDER BALMAIN (1831-1899)
• BRUCE, JAMES (1930-1794)
• BRUCE, MICHAEL (1746-1767)

BRUCE

See also:

• GEORGE BRUCE MALLESON (1825-1898)

MALLESON (1825-1898)  , Indian officer and author, was born at Wimbledon, on the 8th of May 1825 . Educated at Winchester, he obtained• a cadetship in the Bengal infantry in 1842, and served through the second Burmese War . His subsequent appointments were in the civil line, the last being that of guardian to the young maharaja of Mysore.- He retired with the rank of colonel in 1877, having been created C.S.I. in ' Bishop Percy, was issued in 1770 under the title of Northern 1872 . He died at Kensington, on the 1st of March 1898 . He Antiquities (republished with additions in 1847) . The book had was a voluminqus writer, his first work to attract attention a wide circulation, and attracted much attention on account of being the famous " Red Pamphlet," published at Calcutta in its being the first (though a very defective) translation into 1857, when the Mutiny was at its height . He continued, and French of the Edda . The king of Denmark showed his appreciaconsiderably rewrote the History of the Indian Mutiny ( 6 vols., tion by choosing Mallet to be preceptor of the crown prince . In 1878–188o), which was begun but left unfinished by Sir John 176o he returned to Geneva, and became professor of history in Kaye . Among his other books the most valuable are History his native city . While there he was requested by the czarina of the French in India (2nd ed., 1893) and The Decisive Battles of to undertake the education of the heir-apparent of Russia (after-India (3rd ed., 1888). wards the czar Paul I.), but declined the honour .