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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Johns.

service in P.W. Dept. 1880; Executive Engineer, 1891; Junior Consulting Engineer. 1903; Superintending Engineer, 1903; Manager, Oudh and Rohilkand Railway, 1910; employed with Seistan Boundary Commission, 1902-3; Junior Consulting Engineer for Railways, Dharwar, 1903. Address: Lucknow, India.

Johnstone, Frederick John, C.I.E. (1896), P.W.D. India; b. 1841; s. of late William Johnstone of Castle Blaney; m. Fanny Ratcliffe, d. of late Dr. G. P. H. Milson of Collumpton, Devon, 1897; joined service in the P.W.D. India, 1861; Secretary to Government and Chief Engineer, Bengal, 189190; retired, 1896. Address: Kamptee. Highland Road, Norwood, S.E.

Johnstone, James William Douglas. C.I.E. (1911) I.C.S. (retired): b. 1855; s. of Maj-Geneial Henry Campbell Johnstone; educ: at Edinburgh Acadamy and University; joined Punjab Education Department as Professor, Government College, Lahore, 1877; transferred as Headmaster, Mayo, College, Ajmir, 1881; Principal, Daly College, Indore, 1885; Tutor to Maharaja Sindia, 1890-1895; Inspr-General of Education, Gwalior State, 1894; Fellow, Allahabad University; Census Commissioner, Gwalior State, 1910-1911; Member of State Council, Gwaliar. Publication: “Gwaliar” (1918). Address Queen Anne’s Mansion S.W.

Johnston, Rev. Samuel Henry, Chaplain, Hyderabad (D); b, Brixton, England, 1827; educ: at the Grammar School, Brixton; joined service in the Bank of Australia, where he rose to be Head Accountant; resigned, and left for New York, 1858; refused an offer of Accountantship in the then New Bank of New York; became partner with George Stannard of the Brooklyn Mills; served in the war of 1861 by joining the 14th Brooklyn (afterwards the 88th New York Regiment); was sent on Detached Service to protect emigrants to California, 1863-65; Superintendent, Montana Silver Mines Company, 1865-70; Accountant, Cincinati and Ohio Railway, New York City, 1870-72; for Holy Orders at Knoxville, Tennesee, 1872; Lay Reader assigned to district outside Knoxville; commenced a Sunday School and gradually built up a congregation, and the Church of St. Luke; studied Divinity under Doctors Huine and Duncan at the University of Tennesee, 1876-80; ordained Deacon, 1880; was for sometime Incumbent of St. John’s, Knoxville; ordained priest and was in charge of 4 churches; returned to England, and was authorised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to minister in all Churches in England; appointed Chaplain of Cochin, 1883; went on furlough and acted as Curate of St. Lukes, Norwood, 1889; returned to India as Chaplain of St. George’s, Church Madura, 1891-93; Incumbent, All Saints Church, Bangalore, 1891-93; transferred to Hyderabad as Chaplain, 1895. Address: Hyderabad (D), India.

Joly De Lotbiniere, Lt. Colonel Alain Chartier, R.E., C.I.E., (1906), Chief Engineer, Bengal, formerly Chief Engineer, Jammu and Kashmir State; b. Quebec, Canada, 1862; s. of late Sir Henry Joly de Lotbinière,; m. Marion Helen Campbell, 1887; educ: R.M. College, Kingston, Canada; joined R.E. 1886; Captain, 1895: Major, 1903; proposed and carried out the first large Hydro

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