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About The Book: Sir Edward West was a British King's Judge who served in India, upholding British honor and fair play against greed and injustice. He was known for his moral integrity and believed that what was morally wrong could not be politically right. However, little has been made public about his life in India, and the Dictionary of Biography only knows him as a political economist. About the Author: Frederick Dawtrey Drewitt (1848-1942) was born at Burpham, Surrey, He was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. He took a natural science degree in 1871 and then began his medical studies at St. George’s Hospital. He qualified in 1876 and was given house appointments at his own Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children and the Belgrave Hospital for Children. His honorary appointments were at the Victoria Hospital for Children, from 1881 to 1887, and the West London Hospital, from 1882 to 1902. He devoted himself for the long remaining years of his life to the study of birds and flowers. He served on committees concerned with the preservation of natural life and represented the Royal College of Physicians in the management of the Chelsea Physic Garden till 1941. He wrote, in 1923, The Romance of the Apothecaries' Garden, which reached a third edition. The range of his interests is shown by the titles of his other publications, Bombay in the Days of George IV (1907), The Latin Names of Common Flowers (1927), and Life of Edward Jenner (1931).