India; Its Administration & Progress.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1903. Third edition, revised and expanded. Octavo. xxii, 515, [1], [4, publisher's ads] pp. plus large folding map. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Front upper tip bumped. A very clean and attractive copy, unopened in the publisher's binding.From the library of Alexander Weddell, with his Virginia House booplate. Weddell was the US Consul General in Calcutta from 1920 to 1924. John Strachey entered the Bengal civil service in 1842, and served in the North-Western Provinces, occupying a number of important positions. In 1868, he became a member of the governor-general's council, and on the assassination of Lord Mayo in 1872 he acted temporarily as viceroy. In 1874 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of the North-Western Provinces. In 1876, by request of Lord Lytton and the secretary of state, he consented to relinquish that office, and returned to the governor-general's council as financial minister, which post he retained until 1880. Also with the armorial bookplate of Sir Roper Lethbridge. He was appointed a Professor in the Bengal Educational Department in 1868, and became a Fellow of University of Calcutta and Secretary of Simla Educational Commission. He was Editor of the Calcutta Quarterly Review from 1871 to 1878. In 1877, he moved to the Indian Political Department, as Political Agent, 1st class, and was appointed Press Commissioner in 1878 when he was awarded Companion of the Indian Empire. He was knighted in 1885. Lethbridge was Hon. Member of the Anjuman-i-Punjab, a Member of the Asiatic Society and the Asiatic Society of Bengal and a Member of Council of East Indian Association and of the National Indian Association.