https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Horatio_Boileau_Goad 2026-10-22T19:53:11Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horatio_Boileau_Goad&diff=204513&oldid=prev 2021-01-19T00:58:36Z

<p>Removing from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Male_suicides&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Male suicides (page does not exist)">Category:Male suicides</a> per <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_December_31" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 December 31">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 December 31</a> using <a href="/w/index.php?title=C:Help:Cat-a-lot&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="C:Help:Cat-a-lot (page does not exist)">Cat-a-lot</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Horatio Boileau Goad&#039;&#039;&#039; (18 September 1839 – 12 February 1896) was a policeman who rose to be the secretary of the Municipal Corporation of [[Shimla|Simla]], [[British India]].&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web | website=Higman Consulting GmbH | title=Simla 1881–1888| date=1997-10-10 | url=http://www.higman.de/Henry%20Irwin/simla.htm | access-date=2019-09-17}}&lt;/ref&gt; He had an extraordinary knowledge of local languages and customs and was a master of disguise.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|last=Rintoul|first=M. C.|title=Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tFCOc-tW3uMC&amp;pg=PA447|year=1993|publisher=Taylor &amp; Francis|isbn=978-0-415-05999-2|page=447}}&lt;/ref&gt; He was the eldest son of Major [[Samuel Boileau Goad]] who built and owned 33 homes in Simla.<br /> <br /> [[Rudyard Kipling]] based the character Strickland in &#039;&#039;[[Plain Tales from the Hills]]&#039;&#039; on Goad.<br /> <br /> Goad committed suicide in 1896.<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Goad, Horatio}}<br /> [[Category:1839 births]]<br /> [[Category:1896 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:British police officers in India]]<br /> [[Category:Suicides in India]]<br /> [[Category:1890s suicides]]</div>

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