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==Early life and education== | ==Early life and education== | ||
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De, an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed | De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De, an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed Presidency University) and Trailokyamohini Debi (nee Basu). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow,<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref> where he was a pupil of Saiyid Husain Bilgrami. | ||
Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. From the Fifteenth Century to the Year 1944 (London: published for the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple by Butterworth & Co., 1949), volumes II (1782-1909) and III (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref> | Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. From the Fifteenth Century to the Year 1944 (London: published for the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple by Butterworth & Co., 1949), volumes II (1782-1909) and III (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref> | ||
His fifth eldest daughter was | His fifth eldest daughter was [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]]<ref name="womenofindia"/> and his third eldest son was [[Basanta Kumar De]], whose son was [[Barun De]]. | ||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||