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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

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Legislative Council, Bombay, 1880; Secretary to Govermnent of India, Finance and Commerce Depart ment, 1881-2; Officiating Finance Minister, 1882; Member in charge of Public Works, 1882-7; Member of the Canterbury House of Laymen. Publications: Church and State in India, and various eductional and architectural works. Address: No. 21 Elveston Clan, S.W. Club: Athenaeum.

Hopkins, Edward Washburn, Ph.D. (Leipzig), LL.D., b, 1857; s; of, Lewis S. Hopkins, M.D.; educ; Columbia, New York, and Leipzig and Berlin engaged in tuition in Columbia, 1881-5; Professor of Sanskrit, first at Byrn Mawr College, 1885-95 and next at Yale, 1895, in succession to Professor Whitney A.B., 1878; Member, German Oriental Society; Secretary, American Oriental Society, since 1897; engaged in University teaching since 1881; spent a year in India, 1896-7. Publications: The Four Castes, Manu in Trubners Oriental Series; Religions of India, The Great Epic of India; Old and New.

Hormasji, Dr. Cowasji, G.G.M.C., Bombay; b. 1837 at Billmora; was Sheriff of Bombay, 1894; elected President of the Bombay Corporation. 1896; Vice-President of the Grant Medical College and Fellow of the Bombay University from 1878; is a Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Address: Dadar, Bombay, India.

Horn, David Bayne, C.I.E. (1905), F.C.H.; M.I.C.E.; Public Works Department Bengal (retired); b. 1851; s. of late David Horn of Mid Douglie, Perthshire; educ: R.I.E. College; joined service as Assistant Engineer, 1874; Executive Engineer, 1882; Under-Secretary, Public Works Department, 1885 1886; Superintending Engineer, 1896; Member, Legislative Council, Bengal, 1902; Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government, 1902-6; retired, 1906. Club: Oriental.

Horne, William Ogilive, C.I.E. (1912) C.S.L, I.C.S.; educ: at the Trinity College, Oxford; joined service in Madras, 1883; Dy. Registrar, appellate side, High Court, 1886; Deputy Commissioner of Salt and Abkari, 1890; Secretary to Commissioner Salt and Abkari, 1892; Inspector-General of Police, 1904; Member, Board of Revenue, 1912; Acting Chief Secretary to Government, 1913; retired, October 1914. Address: c/o India office, London.

Hornel, Hon’ble William Woodword, M.A. Indian Educational Service; educ: at Radley and Trinity College, Oxford; Joined service, 1902; Professor of Presidency College Calcutta: Inspector of Schools, Bengal, 1903; Assistant Director of C.I. Bengal, 1906; Junior Examiner, Board of Education, England, 1908: Present position, 1913. Address: Calcutta, India.

Horniman, H. G., Editor, The “Bombay Chronicle” Bombay; 7th s. of Mr. William Horniman, Paymaster-in-Chief, Royal Navy, Dover Court, Essex; entered a merchantile house at the instance of his father; soon gave it up and took to Journalism; started as editor of an evening paper in South England and was then on the staff of the “Daily Chroincle”, the “Morning Leader”, the “Daily Express” and “Manchester Guardian”; a frequent contributor to “The Times“; joined the staff of

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