RUNDALL, Frank Montagu (“Montie”). Madras 18.5.1851 — Tynemouth, Northumberland 25.4.1930. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of General Francis Hornblow R. (1823–1908), an irrigation engineer in India, and Fanny Ada Seton Burn. “Educated at Marlborough; joined the Berkshire regt., and Indian Staff Corps. Served in Upper Burma on Staff of General Lockhart, 1886-7; Chin-Lushai expedition, 1889-90; commanded in the Chin Hills and conducted operations against Kanhow Chins, 1891. D.S.O. Manipur expedition, 1891; Waziristan campaign, 1895-6; China expedition, 1900-1. Lt.-Colonel.” Retired as Colonel, then lived in London. O.B.F. Married 1876 Emily Rosa Bickersteth (1849–1925), three sons and two daughters.
Publications: Manual of Chin Language. 1???; Manual of Siyin Dialect spoken in the Northern Chin Hills. Rangoon 1891 (the same?); “The Siyin Chins”, R. Geogr. Soc. Suppl. Papers 1893, 563-585.
– Selections from the Rubaiyât & Odes of Hâfiz: the great mystic and lyric poet of Persia. 147 p. L. 1920
Sources: Buckland, Dictionary; ancestry.com; stray notes in Internet.
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