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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

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Glasgow University, 1893-94; Vice President, Committee of Council on Education, 1895-1902; British Plenepotentiary, Berlin Labour Conference, 1880; M.P. (c) Cambridge University, 1892-96. Publications: The Children of the nation; New Zealand Revisited, Address: Campdon Hill Court, Kensington, W., ‘Costle Combe’, Chipenharm. Club; Royal societies.

Goswami, Kisor Lal, M.A., B.L., Rai Bahadur, Member, Executive Council. Bengal; b. at Sirampore, 1856; educ: Presidencv College, Calcutta; M.A., 1879; B.L., 1881; practiced as a Vakil for 12 years; inherited a vast zemindari, and gave up practice; was Chairman of Sirampore Municipality for 9 years; Member, District Board, 24 Parganas; Vice-President, British Indian Association, Calcutta, 1907; was twice elected to Bengal Legislative Council; Director, Bengal Provincial Railway and Banga Lakshmi Cotton Mills; Rai Bahadur, 1907; Member, Malaria Commission, Simla, 1909; Member, Bengal Executive Council, 1910. Address: Sirampore; No. 12, Theatre Road, Calcutta, India.

Gough, Archibald Edward, M.A., Indian Educational Service (Rtd.): b. 1845; s. of Alexander Dick Gough, Architect, London; educ: Lincoln College; Boden Sanskrit Scholar; Kennicott Hebrew Scholar; Denyer, and Johnson Theological Scholar of the University of Oxford; joined . service as Anglo-Sanskrit Professor, Benares College, 1868; Officiating Principal, Benares College; Professor of Philosophy, Presidency College, Calcutta, 1877; also Principal, Calcutta Madrassa; Member, Board of Examiners and Hindi Examiner, Bengal; Principal and Professor of Philosophy, Muir Central College, Allahabad, 1886; Registrar, University of Allahabad, 1887-94; Offg Director of Public Instruction, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, 1894; invalided on furlough, 1894; retired, 1895; Public Examiner, Honour School of Oriental Studies. Oxford, 1900-1902. Publications: Philosophy of the Upanishads and Ancient Indian Metaphysics; Vedanta in the Ency. Brit-; Papers relating to the Collection and Preservation of Records of Ancient Sanskrit Literature in India; Translator (with E. B. Powell. LL.D.) of the Madhavas Sarvadarsangraha; Address: c/o India Office, London.

Gour, Hari Singh M.A., LL.D., (Dublin), D.C.L., b, at Sagar, C.P., 1868; educ; at the High School, Sagar; Jabbalpur College, and Hislop College, Nagpur; proceeded to England, 1889; graduated at Cambridge in Moral Sciences and Law, 1891; called to Bar (Inner Temple), 1892; returned to India and entered the Central Provinces Commission; resigned it and joined the bar, Secretary of the District Council: Rajpur, 1897-1905; Publication; Transfer of property in Britsh India (3 Vols.); is a social reformer and political speaker. Address Sagar, Nagpur, C.P., India.

Gourlay, William Robert, M.A., I.C.S., Private Secretary to H.E. the Governor of Bengal; educ; at Glasgow University, and Jesus Coll., Cambridge; joined I.C.S., 1877: served in Bengal as Magte. and Collector; Registrar, Co-operative Credit Societes, 1904; Private Secretary to Lieutenant Governor, Bengal, 1905;

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