Dalyell, Robert Anstruther ♂

Education

LL.D. 10.1.1885.

Birth/childhood

Born 5.5.1831 eldest son of Lt. Col. [Lieutenant Colonel] John Dalyell of Lingo & Ticknevin and Jane Anstruther. [Soldier]

Career

Educated in England.

Served in Madras Civil Service from 1850. Vice President of the India Council 1883 - 1884. K.C.I.E. [Knight Commander of the Most Emminent Order of the British Empire] 1887. [Civil servant]

J.P. [Justice of the Peace] and Deputy Lieutenant for Fife.

Publications

Memorandum on the Madras famine of 1866 (Madras: Printed for the information of the Madras Central Famine Relief Committee, 1867)

Death

Died 18.1.1890.

Sources

• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)
• St Andrews Citizen 25.1.1890 p4
• Prinsep p172