Hello List I came across a post from last year called Medics in India where Mary [gandmlegge@gmail.com] asked: Is it possible an English Doctor, trained at St Mary's Hospital London could have been posted to Lahore as Superintendent of the Jail there as a punishment? This man's previous posting had been the Residency in Baghdad, and I was led to believe that Residency postings were the most desirable positions a young Doctor could achieve.*But* at this posting he fell madly in love with a married woman - shoch horror!! (my grandmother). They subsequently married after her divorce became absolute and went of to Lahore Jail as mentioned. A year later he was back in London - alone- on TPH obviously a sick man, he died a year later. So he was/they were certainly punished! I realize divorce ca.1900 was frowned upon - but am I reading too much into the above circumstances?? The FIBIS Fibiwiki has a page Lahore http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Lahore. Lahore was capital of the Punjab and consequently had a large number of Civil servants. It was also a large railway centre. The external links mentioned in the FIbiwiki page indicate that Lahore was a desirable place to live. One quote says "By the late nineteenth century, Lahore was a desirable posting for European officers and civilians due to its large size, moderate climate, and relatively cosmopolitan range of institutions and activities." So assuming the Jail was actually in Lahore, or reasonably accessible to Lahore, it seems it would be a desirable posting, not a punishment. Cheers Maureen (Sydney)