Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cubbon, Sir Mark
CUBBON, SIR MARK (1785–1861)
Born Sep. 8, 1785 : went to India in the Madras Infantry in 1800 : Captain in 1816 : in the Commissariat Department in the Pindari war, 1817–8, and in Madras. When the people of Mysore rebelled, in 1831, against the oppression and bad government of their Hindu Raja, Lt-Colonel Cubbon was a member of the Commission of Enquiry : after which the Government of India assumed the administration of the province and Cubbon was made Commissioner, first joint, and in 1834 sole, of Mysore : and soon afterwards of Coorg also : this post he held for 27 years, governing the province despotically but successfully, through native agency, and exercising a profuse hospitality : Lt-General, 1852 : C.B., 1856 : K.C.B., 1859. He never married or left India until he retired in 1861, after 60 years' service in India, when he died at Suez, on April 23. His equestrian statue is in the Cubbon Park at Bangalore : when unveiled, it had been daubed with the three Brahmanical marks on the forehead.