Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn

Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn
   K.C.B., etc.
(b. 1835)
   Poet and biographer. Verses written in India, British Dominion in India, Asiatic Studies, Lives of Warren Hastings, Lord Dufferin, etc.

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