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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Lalji Walji Sait.

community; Honorary Secre tary, Madras Anjuman-i-Islaima; Member, Madras Branch of the Moslem Leagu;! Member, Southern India Chamber of Commerce, Madras. Proprietor of the Self-guarding Safe Factory. Address: No. 37/38, Ungappa Naick Street, Georgetown, Madras, India.

Lal’ubhal Asbram Shah, M.A., LL.B., Judge, High Court, Bombay; was Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor; also Member of the Legislative Council, Bombay, till 1912; Judge, High Court, Bombay, since 1912. Address: Bombay, India.

Lallubhai Hathe Singh, Rao Sahib (1904); b. 1846; educ: Sanand and Ahmedabad; joined Police Department, 1869; rose to the position of Superintendent of Police from which he retired; owns landed property; was a Member of the Sanand Municipality for a few years. Address: Sanand, Ahmedabad, Bombay Presidency, India.

Lamb, Richard Amphlett, C.S.I., (1909); K.C.S.I. (1911); s. of late William Lamb; m. Kathleen, 2nd d. of Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Barry, 1901; educ: Highgate Grammar School; joined I.C.S. as Assistant Collector and Magistrate, 1879; was Forest Settlement Officer, Khandesh; Deputy Commissioner, Burmah, 1887-90 (medal with clasp); Assistant Collector and Magistrate. Bombay; Chairman, Poona Plague Committee, 1897; acting Chief Secretary to Government of Bombay, 1904; K.I.H. (1st-class), 1909; Commissioner, Central Division, 1905; Member, Indian Excise Committee, 1905-6; Chief Secretary to Gevernment. Bombay, 1907, Member, Executive Council, Bombay, 1910, Recreations: motoring, bicycling. Address: c/o Grindlay and Co., 54, Parliament Street, S.W. Clubs: East India United Service, Byculla; Yacht, Bombay; Club of Western India, Poona.

Lambert, Sir John, K.C.I.E.,(1893), I.C.S., (retired); s. of Rev. A. L. Lambert; b. 1838; m. Annie, d. of Lieutenant-General F. D. Atkinson, 1869; joined service in the Bengal Police as Assistant Superintendent, 1863; became District Superintendent; official visitor of Jail and Lunatic Asylums, 1872; Deputy Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, 1874; transferred to Foreign Department, 1882-84; acting Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, 1885-86; confirmed, 1889; Member, Legislative Council, Bengal, 1892-95; retired, 1897. Address: 81, Harcourt Terrace, S.W. Club: Oriental.

Lamington, 2nd Baron, (1880), Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, B.A., G.C. M.G., (1900), G.C.I.E. (1903), D.L., J.P., B.A., F.R.G.S.; b. 1860; s. of 1st Baron; S. father, 1890; m. Hon. Mary Houghton Hozier; y.d. of 1st Baron Newlands, 1895; educ: Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Salisbury (Prime Minister), 1885-86; M.P. (C) for North St. Pancras, 1886-90; travelled from Siam to Tonquin, 1890-91; Governor of Queensland, 1895-1901; Governor of Bombay, 1903-07; owns about 12,000 acres of land. Recreations: Shooting, fishing. Address: Lanarkshire, Clubs: Turf, Carlton, Wellington; New Edinburgh.

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