3-028-785 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Victim of an Indian fanatic: the late Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, K.C.I.E., assassinated at the Imperial Institute, 1909. 'Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Curzon Wyllie, who came to so tragic an end at the hand of a fanatical Indian assassin, was one of the most popular and best-beloved of Anglo-Indian [ie a Briton who has lived for a long time in India] officials. Born in 1848, he was educated at Marlborough and Sandhurst, and entered the Indian Staff Corps in 1869. The next year he joined the Oudh Commission, and in 1879 he was transferred to the political department. During the Afghan War he served in Beluchistan, and he took part in the relief of Candahar. After being Military and then Private Secretary to the Governor of Madras, he became successively Resident in Nepal, Governor-General's Agent in Central India, and Governor-General's Agent in Rajputana. Retiring from the latter post in 1901, he was made Political A.D.C. to the Secretary of State for India. He had a very wide knowledge of Indian affairs and Indian Courts, and he was ever ready to show kindness to Indians of all classes, whether high or low, visiting this country, and especially to Indian students, among them the very one at whose hands he met his death'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.