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(Thomas Lumsden), late Madras Civil Service, and for many years a judge of the High Court, Madras. A highly religious man, and long an Evangelical Christian, he joined the Plymouth Brethren, and ended in being a strong, and then weak Theist, and always an earnest advocate of practical piety in life and conduct, and a diligent student and writer. When judge, he sentenced a Brahmin to death, and sought to bring the prisoner “to Jesus.” He profe ed himself influenced, but at the gallows “he proclaimed his trust to be in Rama and not in Christ.” This set the judge thinking. He investigated Christianity’s claims, and has embodied the result in his works. The Bible, Is it the Word of God? ’71; The Speaker’s Commentary Reviewed , ’71; The Development of Creation on the Earth , ’74; The Legends of the Old Testament , ’74; and The Sources and Development of Christianity , ’75. A friend of T. Scott and General For long, he died at Norwood, 4 Sept. 1884.