George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (
1848-
1881), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was born on the 25th of
July 1848, and was educated at
Magdalen College School and
Cambridge University. Entering the Indian education department in
1870, he became professor of English literature in Delhi College in
1873, tutor to the Raja of Rutlam in
1876, and principal of the Rajkumar College at Indore in
1877.
He is best known for his book Twenty-one Days in India (1878-1879), a satire upon Anglo-Indian society and modes of thought. This book gave promise of a successful literary career, but the author died at the age of thirty-three.
Derived from a 1911 Encyclopedia