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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Ramsay.

Ramsay, Maj-General, Sir John George, K.C.B. (1911); s. of William J. D. Ramsay, R.N.; b. 1856; entered 14th regiment, 1875; transferred to I.S.C., 1877; became Colonel, 1906; Maj-General, 1910; served during Afghan War, 1878-1880; present at the March from Kabul to Khandahar; Hazra Expedition, 1888; N.W. Frontier Expedition, 1897-98; present at the relief of Chodalcara in China, 1900; relief of Peking and Mahamand Expedition, 1908; D.Q.A.G., Bengal, 1890-95; A.A.G., 2nd Dn. N. Army, India, 1905; D.A.G.N. Command, India, 1907; Rawalpindi Brigade, 1907; Jhelum Brig., 1907; Kohat Brig., 1908; Bangalore Infantry Brigade, 1909-11; m. Ethel, d. of Maj-General G. N. Gave, I.S.C., 1898. Address: Bangalore, Mysore State, India.

Ramsay, Lt-Colonel Henry Lushington, I.S.C., (retired); Commissioner, 1874; acting Assistant Agent to Governor-General in Rajputana, 1877-8; Junior Attache, Foreign Department, 1879; Senior Attache, 1880; Political Officer on the staff of Sir F. S. Roberts with the Kurnam Field Force (medal and clasp), 1879; Assistant to the Agent to Governor General in Rajputana, 1880; Magistrate at Abu, and Assistant to General Superintendent, Thaggi and Dacoity Deptt. 18S0; Assistant Agent, Baluchistan, 1882; Consul at Bassora, 1883; Cantonment Magistrate, Nasirabad, 1883; Joint Commissioner, Ladak, 1885; Political Agent, Bhopawar, 1891; Political Agent, South Baluchistan, 1893; Political Agent attached to Sardar Ayub Khan, 1894; retired, 1901. Publication: “Western Tibet”. Address: c/o. India Office, London.

Ramsay, Major John, C.I.E. (1898), Indian Army; 4th s. of the 8th Earl of Dalhousie; joined service in the Army, 1882; acted as Assistant in Ajmir and Indore from July 188; confirmed at Indore, 1889; Political Agent at Haraoti and Tonk, 1891; 1st Assistant to Political Officer, Indore, 1892; Assistant General of Thaggi and Dacoitv department, 1892; Political Agent, Bundulkhand, 1893; Political Agent and Deputy Commissioner, Quetta-Pishin, 1898; Revenue and Judical Commissioner, Baluchistan, 1902-5.

Ramayya Panthulu, Jayanti, B.A., B.L., Deputy Collector, Madras Service; b, 1861; passed B.A., 1882; joined service in the Cocanada Collectorate as Vernacular Clerk, 1886; English Head Clerk of the same Collectorate, 1888; Huzur Sheristadar, 1890; Tahsildar, 1891; Treasury Deputy Collector, 1892; 4th Presidency Magistrate, Madras, 1911; promoted to 2nd grade and posted to Chittoor, 1913; Personal Assistant to the Collector, Guntur, 1914; one of the founders of the Telugu Academy, Madras, of which he is a Member; greatly interested in the promotion of Telugu Literature; a frequent contributor to ‘Indian Antiquary’, and the ‘Epigraphia Indica’, and the journal of the Telugu Academy; among the articles contributed by him are: Tottaramuddi plates of kataya vana (Epigraphia Indica. Vol II.); three inscriptions of Reddies of Kondavedu; an inscription of Sarvalokasraya (Journal of Telugu Academy, Vol., II); the gift deeds of Madui-a-Naiks (Ibid); the scheme of Hindu Life (an Address read by him before the South Indian Association, Madras,

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