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Lot Essay
The accompanying note says:
This book written by the King of Oudh (& printed and published at Lucknow) was sent by the Author to Arthur Otway M.P. through his vakeel, Syed Abdollah
Brighton Febry 19th 1856
A vakeel is a legal representative who acted as liason between the British and the Indians.
Sir Arthur Otway was the son of Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Bt., a distinguished sailor and protegé of Lord Nelson. Sir Arthur served in the army for seven years, five of them in India. He left at the age of 24 and studied for the bar. He helped to form the India Reform Society, and on his election as Liberal member for Stafford in 1852, undertook to open in the House on the question of Indian Administrative Reform. He initiated an inquiry into corruption at Baroda, which ultimately was to lead to the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown. He retired from Parliament in 1857, though he was subsequently re-elected in 1865 and in 1878. It must have been during his first tenure as MP that Otway received this gift.
This book written by the King of Oudh (& printed and published at Lucknow) was sent by the Author to Arthur Otway M.P. through his vakeel, Syed Abdollah
Brighton Febry 19th 1856
A vakeel is a legal representative who acted as liason between the British and the Indians.
Sir Arthur Otway was the son of Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Bt., a distinguished sailor and protegé of Lord Nelson. Sir Arthur served in the army for seven years, five of them in India. He left at the age of 24 and studied for the bar. He helped to form the India Reform Society, and on his election as Liberal member for Stafford in 1852, undertook to open in the House on the question of Indian Administrative Reform. He initiated an inquiry into corruption at Baroda, which ultimately was to lead to the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown. He retired from Parliament in 1857, though he was subsequently re-elected in 1865 and in 1878. It must have been during his first tenure as MP that Otway received this gift.