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SIR JAMES DIGGES LA TOUCHE, whose death at Dublin is announced, belonged to an old Anglo-. French family, and was a member of the Indian Civil Service for forty years before his retirement in 1907. At the close of a successful official career he was appointed to the post of Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, and to a seat on the Council of India. He was a typical civilian of the older school, hardworking and devoted to the interests of the Indian people, but lacking that breadth of view which would have qualified him to meet the new political conditions which arose after his retirement from the Service. Though he knew the people intimately, he possessed little imagination or literary skill, and he published nothing except a gazetteer of the Province of Ajmir. His memory will be preserved by his educational policythe improvement of the teachers' position, the provision of improved school buildings and boarding-houses, and, finally, by his foundation of the Medical College at Lucknow, which was the crown of his official labours.
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Obituary. Nature 108, 221 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108221c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108221c0