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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

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educ; Emmanuel College, Cambridge: joined Service, 1900; Assistant Collector, District Magistrate and Government Agent, Godavari, 1901; in charge of Depty Collector’s office. Agency Division, May to August 1902; Head Assistant Collector and Magistrate, from June 1902; Ag. Assistant Secretary to Government, 1903; Ag. Under Secretary to Government, Revenue Department 1905; confirmed, 1906; French Translator to Government from 15 April 1909; services placed at the disposal of the Government of India, Home Department, for Legislative training, from 4th April to 6th November 1903; Publications: Translation of K. Viresalingam’s ’“Vinodya Taringini”; The Madras Ecclesiastical Manual for Magistrates; The Madras Ecclesiastical Manual; The Government Dutch Record Series; the Dutch in Malabar.

Gallwey, Surgeon-General Sir Thomas Joseph, M.D., M.Ch., K.C.M.G. (1900) C.B. (1896) Army Medical Staff; 4th s. of late Henry Gallwey J.P., Tramore, Waterford; b. 1852; educ; Stonyhurst, and Royal University, Ireland; joined Army Medical Deptt, 1874; specially made Surgeon-Major, 1S85; became Colonel, 1898; Afghan War, Ali Musjid (medal with clasp), etc; Egyptian Expedition induing Kassnssin and Tel-el-Kebir (medal with clasp, Khedive’s Star); Soudan Expedition, 1884-85; P.M.O., India, 1902-00; P.M.O., Aldershot 1900-11; retired, 1911; holds 3rd class Medjedie, 1895. Recreations: racquets, billiards, Cricket, polo, shooting, racing. Club: junior United Service.

Galtrey, Albert Sidney; b. Scarborough 1878; Commenced life as a journalist and was successively on the Staff of the Leeds Daily News and Leeds Mercury; editor of the Indian Sporting Times, Bombay, 1901; was connected with the Times of India; became intimately associated with racing and polo in India; was a member of the Bombay Light Horse Corps; left for England where he became assist. editor and dramatic critic of The Sportsman, 1905; now special sporting correspondent of the Daily Telegraph; contributor to Fry’s Magazine, The Tatler, etc. is a well-known authority on polo. Address: Daily Telegraph, Fleet Street, E.C.

Gamble, James Sykes, C.I.E. (1899), F.R.S., F.L.S., Indian Forest Service (retired); b. 1847; s. of Harpur Gamble, M.D.; educ: at Royal Naval School, New Cross; Magdalen College, Oxford; and at Nancy, France; m. Girtrude, d. of late Rev. A. S. Slater, Norfolk, 1911; entered Indian Forest Department, 1871; rose to be Conservator of Forests, N.W.P.; Director of Imperial Forest Schools, Dehra Dun, 1890-1899; Publications: A Manual of Indian Timbers; The Bamboos of British India, 1885; Address: Highfield, East Lyss, Hants. Club: Athenæum.

Gamble, R. A., I.C.S. Delhi; joined Service, 1883; Assistant and Deputy Accountant-General for a few years; Under Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department, 1890 to 1895; acted as Deputy Secretary to Government for a short period; Accountant-General, United Provinces, 1896-05; Commissioner,

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