Pop. (1901) 10,893. Formerly
a military cantonment, it is now only the civil headquarters of the
district. It has an English church, mission chapel, and Roman Catholic
chapel, a high school, and several literary institutes.

CHITTY, SIR JOSEPH WILLIAM (1828-1899), English judge, was born in
London. He was the second son of Thomas Chitty (himself son and brother
of well-known lawyers), a celebrated special pleader and writer of legal
text-books, in whose pupil-room many distinguished lawyers began their
legal education. Joseph Chitty was educated at Eton and Balliol, Oxford,
gaining a first-class in _Literae Humaniores_ in 1851, and being
afterwards elected to a fellowship at Exeter College. His principal
distinctions during his school and college career had been earned in
athletics, and he came to London as a man who had stroked the Oxford
boat and captained the Oxford cricket eleven. He became a member of
Lincoln's Inn in 1851, was called to the bar in 1856, and made a queen's
counsel in 1874, electing to practise as such in the court in which Sir
George Jessel, master of the rolls, presided. Chitty was highly
successful in his method of dealing with a very masterful if exceedingly
able judge, and soon his practice became very large. In 1880 he entered
the house of commons as liberal member for Oxford (city). His
parliamentary career was short, for in 1881 the Judicature Act required
that the master of the rolls should cease to sit regularly as a judge of
first instance, and Chitty was selected to fill the vacancy thus created
in the chancery division. Sir Joseph Chitty was for sixteen years a
popular judge, in the best meaning of the phrase, being noted for his
courtesy, geniality, patience and scrupulous fairness, as well as for
his legal attainments, and being much respected and liked by those
practising before him, in spite of a habit of interrupting counsel,
possibly acquired through the example of Sir George Jessel. In 1897, on
the retirement of Sir Edward Kay, L.J., he was promoted to the court of
appeal. There he more than sustained--in fact, he appreciably
increased--his reputation as a lawyer and a judge, proving himself to
possess considerable knowledge of the common law as well as of equity.
He died in London on the 15th of February 1899. He married in 1858 Clara
Jessie, daughter of Chief Baron Pollock, and left children who could
thus claim descent from two of the best-known English legal families of