Horatio Boileau Goad
Horatio Boileau Goad (18 September 1839 – 12 February 1896) was a policeman who rose to be the secretary of the Municipal Corporation of Simla, British India.[1] He had an extraordinary knowledge of local languages and customs and was a master of disguise.[2] He was the eldest son of Major Samuel Boileau Goad who built and owned 33 homes in Simla.
Rudyard Kipling based the character Strickland in Plain Tales from the Hills on Goad.
Goad committed suicide in 1896.
References
[edit]- ^ "Simla 1881–1888". Higman Consulting GmbH. 1997-10-10. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
- ^ Rintoul, M. C. (1993). Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction. Taylor & Francis. p. 447. ISBN 978-0-415-05999-2.