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Molvi Noor Ahmed Chishti was born in 10th June 1823 at Lahore and died in 11th August, 1867 at the age of 44. He taught Urdu, Persian and Arabic, including to Lord Lawrence and Charles Aitcheson. Tehkikat e Chishti and Yadgar e Chishti were written by him. His father, Molvi Ahmed Bakhsh Yakdil, was also a scholar. He is buried in Sultan Pura Lahore near Lahore Railway Station.

Robert Eyles Egerton served as a British administrator in India after being educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and Haileybury. He began his career in India in 1849. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he served as Deputy Commissioner at Lahore. In 1869, he was appointed Commissioner of Nagpur and, in 1871, he was made Financial Commissioner of the Punjab. In 1879 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab. Egerton retired in 1882. There is a memorial to Egerton and his wife, Mary Warren, in the Cathedral Church of the Resurrection, Lahore.