After This Yule Served For Two Or Three Years As Chief Commissioner Of
Oudh, Where In 1862 He Married Miss Pemberton, The Daughter Of A Very Able
Father, And The Niece Of Sir Donald MacLeod, Of Honoured And Beloved
Memory.
Then for four or five years he was Resident at Hyderabad, where he
won the enduring friendship of Sir Salar Jung.
"Everywhere he showed the
same characteristic firm but benignant justice. Everywhere he gained the
lasting attachment of all with whom he had intimate dealings - except
tigers and scoundrels."
Many years later, indignant at the then apparently supine attitude of the
British Government in the matter of the Abyssinian captives, George Yule
wrote a letter (necessarily published without his name, as he was then on
the Governor-General's Council), to the editor of an influential Indian
paper, proposing a private expedition should be organised for their
delivery from King Theodore, and inviting the editor (Dr. George Smith) to
open a list of subscriptions in his paper for this purpose, to which Yule
offered to contribute L2000 by way of beginning. Although impracticable in
itself, it is probable that, as in other cases, the existence of such a
project may have helped to force the Government into action. The
particulars of the above incident were printed by Dr. Smith in his Memoir
of the Rev. John Wilson, but are given here from memory.
From Hyderabad he was promoted in 1867 to the Governor-General's Council,
but his health broke down under the sedentary life, and he retired and
came home in 1869.
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