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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

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Police Magistrate, and Commissioner to inquire into administration and working of Police Force, Barbadoes, 1880; acting Judge, Court of Appeal, 1881; Magistrate, 1st District, St. Lucia, 1881; Member, Executive and Legislative Councils, 1881; Delegate to West Indian Telegraph Conference, 1882; acting Chief Justice, St. Lucia and Tobaco, 1883; acting Attorney-General 1888; Member, Windword Court of appeal, 1886; Magistrate and Member, Executive and Legislative Council, Granada, 1887; Resident Magistrate, Westmoreland, Jamaica, 1888; St. Thomas-Ye-East, 1890; St. aotherine, 1891; City and parish of Kingston, 1892; acting Puisne Judge, 1895; acting Attorney-General and Member of Executive Council, 1896; Resident Magistrate for Jamaica 189G: Puisne Judge, Straits Settlements, 1896; acting Judicial Commissioner, Federated Malay States, 1908; Judicial Commissioner, Federated Malay states, 1904; Chief Judicial Commissioner, 1900. Address: Good-wood, Singapore. Club: Albemarle.

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Ibbetson, Lady; w. of Denzil Charles Jelf Ibbetson, I.C.S., sometime Lieut-Governor of the Punjab, and d. of Samuel Coulden, of Cambridge; m, 1870. Address; 58, Nevern Square, S.W.

Ibrahim Rahimtoola, Hon’ble Sir, Kt, C.I.E., J.P, Bombay; b, 1862; s. Rahimtoola Kaderbhoy; joined his brother in business; started the firm of Rahimtoola Khaderbhoy and Co; Member, Standing Committee of the Bombay Corporation, 1895: President Bombay Corporation, 1899; Member, Legislative Council, Bombay, 1899; Sheriff of Bombay, 1901, an ardent supporter of Primary Education; introduced the reading of Koran in schools; Member, Managing Committee, Anjuman-i-Islam, Bombay; President, Khoja Reading Room and Library; Member, Improvement Trust and Plague Committee, Bombay; represented Bombay on the Museum Conference held at Calcutta, 1907; Director, Bank of India Limited. Address: Bombay, India, Clubs: Islam Gymkhana and Orient.

Idar, Maharaja of; Major-General H.H. Maharaja Sir Pratab Singhji, LL.D, (Camb) G.C.S.I., K.C.B., A.D.C; b. 1845; succeeded to gaddi, 1903; belongs to the great Rathor Rajput clan, believed to have sprung from Kuchlia, the 2nd son of Divine Rama; pays tribute to the Gaikwar and receives tribute from some other minor States; appointed (2nd time) as Regent of the State of Jodhpur during the minority of the Chief of that State, 1891; his own State is administered by his son, Maharaja Dhiraj Maharajaji Shri Dowlat Sinhji Sahib Bahadur; Member of the India Government’s Mission to Kabul; appointed A.D.C. to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (King Emperor Edward VII.); Honorary Lt.-Col, in the British Army; helped in founding the Imperial Service Troops, 1889; formed the Jodhpur Lancers, 1897; attended Empress Victoria’s D.J. and was created G.C.S.I.; joined the Mohamand expedition with an escort of Jodhpur Lancers; joined the Tirah expd as A.D.C. to General Sir W. Lockbart; area of the State, 1669 square miles; popula tion, about 170.000; revenue,

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