Page:The Indian Biographical Dictionary.djvu/109

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.

INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Brittain.

Chaplain, Madras, 1887; Senior Chaplain, and Canon of Madras Cathedral: Editor, Madras Diocesan Magazine, 1903-07; Acting Archdeacon of Madras and Bishop’s Commissary; Founder of the Diocesan Soldier’s Institutes at Secunderabad and St. Thomas’s Mount: Secretary of the Anglican Third Order; Vicar of Whittlebury-cum-Silverstone, 1909. Address: Whittlebury Vicarage, Towcester.

Browning, C. E., M.I.C.E., M.A.S.E.; b. 1869; Chief Engineer, Cochin State. Address: Ernaculam, Cochin State, Southern India.

Browning, Lt.-Colonel Winthrop Benjamin, C.I.E., 1898; L.R.C.P.I.; L.R.C.S.I.; Senior Medical Officer, General Hospital, and Principal, Medical College, Madras, (retired); Fellow Madras University; s. of late Benjamin Winthrop Browning, Baggotstown, Co. Limerick; b. 1855; m. 1887, Annie Georgina, d. of Col. Kenlis-Fergus Stevenson; three s. Educ.: privately; entered Indian Medical Service, 1880; entered civil department and became Surgeon, Royapetta Hospital, and Professor of Medical-Jurisprudence, Madras Medical College; 1st Surgeon and Prof, of Surgery, Madras General Hospital, 1905; Surgeon to T.E. Lord Wenlock, Sir A. Havelock, and Lord Ampthill, Governors of Madras; Retired, 1910. Address: Raheen, Tipperary. Club: East India United Service.

Brownlow, Lieut-General Henry Alexander, R.E.; b. 1831; m. 1859, d. of late Sir J. Brind, G.C.B., R.A.; entered Army, 1849; Maj-Gen. 1886; served Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; Inspector General of Irrigation and Deputy Secretary to Government of India, 1877-86; Retired, 1886. Address: 8, Homefield Road, Wimbledon.

Bruce, Richard Isaac, Commissioner (retired). Punjab; b. 1840: s. of Jonathan Bruce: served in Afghan War, 1878-9: on the N.W. Frontier of India at Daulatzai, 1884: in the Zhob Valley Expedition, 1890; co-operated in the opening of the Cromal Pass, 1890; British Commissioner, Afghan Waziristan Delimitation Commission, 1894: at Wano, 1894: in Waziristan, 1894-5: received thanks of Government on several occasions for distinguished services on the Frontier. Publications: Gazetter of Dera Ghazi Khan; A Manual of the Beluchi language; A History of the Marri-Beluch Tribe; The Forward Policy, and its Results. Address: Quetta; Fairfax Road, Teddington. East India United Service club.

Brunyate, James Bennett, C.I.E., (1910), I.C.S., Additional Member, Imperial Legislative Council; s. of late Rev. W. Brunyate of Lansdown, Bath; b. 1871; Educ, at St. Paul’s school and Trinity College, Cambridge; entered service, 1889; Served in N.W. Provinces as Assist. Collector and Magistrate, and Assistant Settlement officer; Under Secretary to Government, 1896; Under Secretary to Government of India, Finance and Commerce Department, 1897; Deputy Commissioner, 1901; Deputy Secretary, Government of India, Finance Department, 1905; Joint Secretary, Government of India, Finance Department (Mil Finance,) 1907; Member, International Opium Commission, Shanghai, 1909; Member of Imperial Executive Council; Clubs: East India

69