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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Shallon.

1879-81; served Burma Expedition, 1886-87; Commanded Myaing Column, 1887-88; Tirah Expedition, 1897-98; in charge of the Imperial Service Sappers and Infantry; Commanded the Zhob section of Mahsud-Waziri blockading force, 1902, and troops in Zhob District, 1902; Commandant in the Aden Hinter Land; Adj.-Genl., 1908; Secy, to the Govt, of India, Army Dept., 1909; Lt.-Genl. 1911; in Command of Burma Division, 1913; m. Jeannette, d. of late John Gorden, Master of the Supreme Court, 1904. Address: Brukfield House, Kempsey, Worcester. Club: National.

Schalch, Col. Vernon Ansdell, C.B. (1904), Indian Army (Retd.); s. of late Vernon Hugh Schalch; b. 1849; educ: Rugby; entered Army, 1869; joined the Indian Army, 1881; became Colonel, 1900; Burma Expedition, 1885-57; Hazara Expedition, 1891; Malakand Field Force, 1897-99; D.A.A.G., Bengal, 1885; A.Q.M.G., Bengal, 1899; Colonel on Staff, 1903; Commandant of 4th Brigade, 9th Division, India, 1904-06; m. Helen, d. of late W. Y. M. McDonell, V.C., 1884. Address: the Cottage, Queen’s Road, Cheltenham. Club: United Service.

Scharlieb, Mary Dacomb, M.D., M.S. (London); Physician and Surgeon; Consulting Gynaecologist, Royal Free Hospital; Governor of St. Mary’s College, Paddington; m. a Barrister once practicing in Madras; b. London 1845; educ: privately; Madras Medical College; received diploma of College 1878; the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine for Women in London, entered for the M.B. and B.S. degrees of London University in 1882; received the gold medal and scholarship in obstetric medicine; Honours in Medicine, Forensic Medicine and Surgery; returned to India 1883, and was appointed Lecturer in Midwifery and Gynaecology in Madras Medical College, and Examiner to the University of Madras in those subjects; also Medical Superintendent Royal Victoria Hospital for Caste and Gosha Women; M.D. of London 1883; and M.S. 1896, late senior Surgeon at New Hospital for Women; Lecturer on Obstetrics to School of Medicine for Women, Handle Street, Brunswick Sq. Publications: A Woman’s Words to Women, A Mother’s Guide to the Health and Management of her Children. Recreations: Foreign travel. Address: 149 Harley Street, Cavendish Square.

Schlich, Sir William, K.C.I.E. (1909) C.I.E., (1890); Ph.D., 1867; F.R.S., 1901; M.A., Oxon, 1905; Professor of Forestry, University of Oxford since 1905; b. 1840; s. of late Kirchenrath Schlich, Hesse-Darmstadt; educ: Darmstadt, University of Giessen. Appointed to the Indian Forest Department, 1866; Conservator of Forests, Bengal, 1872; Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India, 1881; Organised the first school of Forestry in England at Cooper’s Hill, 1885; transferred to Oxford University, 1905; Reader, 1911. Publications: a Manual of Forestry in five volumes; The Outlook of the World’s Timber Supply; Afforestation in Great Britain and Ireland; Forestry in the United Kingdom; married

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