at Christ Church, Oxford (where he was a president of the United Debating Society[1]), and entered the Inner Temple.
In 1835 he joined the Secretariat, in which he served in several departments under Sir William Hay Macnaghten.
Here in his endeavours to improve the Nizamat administration, his relations with the Nawab Nizam and his officials became greatly strained.
[2] He was a clever essayist as well as a journalist and scholar, and his scattered papers were deservedly collected and published at Calcutta in 1854.
[3] Torrens died of dysentery at Calcutta while on a visit to the Governor-General on 16 August 1852 and was buried in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery.