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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

m. 1888, 1899 and 1904; eldest son, Bhuvaraha Muttuvijaya; present by invitation at the reception of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1906; maintains a Vedic School at Udaiyarpalaiyam; supporter of secular and religious education; maintains a bed at the Caste and Gosha Hospital, Madras; spends large sums in renovating ancient temples, etc.; feeds the poor and maintains choultries at an annual cost of over Rs. 30,000. Address: Udaiyarpalyam, Trichinopoly District, Madras Presy., India.

Udny, Sir Richard, K.C.S.I. (1897), C.S.I. (1894); b. 1847; s. of George Udny; educ: Aberdeen University; M.A. 1866; 1st class Honours in Mathematics; 2nd class Classics; Fullerton Mathematical scholar, 1867; Hon. LL.D, 1898; entered Bengal Civil Service, 1869; served as Political officer with several frontier expeditions; on a special mission to Kurram Valley, 1888; Commissioner, Peshawar Division, 1891; Commissioner for Delimitation of the Indo-Afghan Boundary, 1894-95. and 1896-97; retired, 1899; m. 1883, Alice (died 1904), d. of Samuel Tomkins, Banker of London. Address: Queen Anne’s Mansions, S.W. Club: East India United Service.

Ugyen Wang Chuk. (see Bhutan, Maharaja of).

Ujal Singh Sirdar; b. 1858; head of the Dhanaura family; one of the ancestors of this family came to the south and took service under Raja Amar Singh of Patiala in 1770, for which he was granted a quarter share in some of the villages; the family proved very loyal to the British in the Sikh wars and in the Mutiny of 1857; the title of Sirdar is hereditary; divisional Durbaree, exempted from personal attendance in Civil Court Address: Dhanaura, Karnal Punjab, India.

Ullat, Ven’ble Ihsam; Archdeacon of Delhi; b. 1857; descended from a Mahamedan family of merchants; educ: Baring High School, Batala; Lahore Divinity College; school master and Evangelist; visited England, and stayed with the Church Army 1886; studied in the Divinity College, Lahore; worked for a decade in the Narowal Mission Parochia Missionary for some years; proceeded again to England 1899;represented at the C.M.S. Centenary; went to U.S.A. for attending lectures in the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago; visited Canada; returned to India, 1900; joined Jhangbar Mission; Archdeacon in the Lahore Diocese 1910; Archdeacon of Delhi, 1912 m. 1889; Address: Lyalpore District, Punjab.

Umar Hayat Khan (Tiwana) Malik Mahamud, C.I.E. (1906); s. of late Malik Saheb Khan, C.S.I.: b. 1875; Chief of the Karla State; Honorary Magistrate and Member of the Council of GovernorGeneral of India; some time a member, Legislative Council. Punjab. Address: Karla State, Sharpur district, Punjab, India.

Umrao Singh, Sardar, Amristsar; b. 1869; educ: Government School, Amritsar, and Aitchison College, Lahore; m. d. of Captain Gulab Singh, 1883; his father, after serving British Government in the Mutiny of

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