1 ii INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
2 outstanding features. He was born on August 30th, 1847, and after being
3 educated at St. Peter's College, Adelaide, and St. John's College, Cambridge,
4 entered the Indian Civil Service in 1870. He was early in his service selected
5 for the special posts of Settlement Officer of the KarnSl District and Superin-
6 tendent of Census Operations in the Panjdb. He subsequently filled from time
7 to time the apjiointments of Director of Public Instruction and Financial Com-
8 missioner in the Panjab, Secretary to the Government of India in the Revenue
9 and Agricultural Department, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, and
10 Member of the Viceroy's Council. In 1907 he became Lieutenant-Governor
11 of the Panjab, but held that important post for all too short a time, succumbing
12 to a fatal malady on the 21st of February 1908.
13 No one to whom Sii- Denzil Ibbetson Avas known can ever forget his
14 personality : his tall and commanding presence, his vivacious and original
15 conversation, his constant sense of humoui-, his quick indignation and his equally
16 quick sympathy. For the thoroughness of his erudition in many directions he
17 was unsurpassed in India and as an administrator there are not a few who hold
18 him to have been the greatest Indian Civil Servant of our time. His character
19 and career are admirably summed up in an inscription placed by the Viceroy
20 on whose Council he served on the walls of the Simla Church which runs as
21 follows : —
22 Untiring in Administration,
23 Fearless in doing right,
24 a scholar and a man of affairs,
25 lotal in co-operation, devoted in friendship
26 He gave TO India his love
27 AND ms LIFE.