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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Buckley.

Buckley, Hon. Mr. L.E. I.C.S. Member, Board of Revenue, Madras; educ, the New College, Oxford; joined service, 1887; Temporary Famine Secretary, Board of Revenue, 1897; Commissioner, Coorg, for a few mouths in 1898, and then Plague Commissioner, Madras; Collector and Magistrate, 1900; special duty in connection with the revision of the Madras Forest Code, 1909; Member, Board of Revenue. 1913; Address; Madras.

Bullock, Frederick Shore, C.S.I. C.I.E. 1897; Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, since 1909, Chief Constable, Metropolitan Police, London, 1903-09; b. India, 1847; s. of Thomas Henry Bullock, Commissioner of Berar; Educ: Cheltenham College; Passed for Indian Civil Service; 1868: arrived in India, 1870, served in N.W.P., as Judge and Collector; Judicial Commissioner of Berar, 1892; Commissioner of Hyderabad assigned Districts, 1895; retired, 1899; British delegate to International Congress on White Slave Traffic, Paris, 1906; British Delegate to International Congresses on White Slave Traffic and Obscenic Literature, 1910. Recreations: golf, cricket, shooting. Address 19, The Grove, Boltons, S.W. Club: Junior Carlton, Ranelagh.

Bun Behari Kapur, Raja, C.S.I. (1909); b, 1855; Father of H.H. the present Maharajadhiraja of Burdwan, K.C.I.E.; Has been Diwau-i-Raj, Burdwan; Vice President and Chief Councillor of the State Council; Hony. Magistrate and Member, District Board, Burdwan; Manager of the Raj Estates, and a Member. Bengal Legislative Council (for 3 terms); Raja (personal), 1893. Address; Burdwan, India.

Bunbury, Cecil Edward Francis, C.S.I., 1910; Resident and Judicial Commissioner, N.W. Frontier Province since 1906; Educ.: Wellington; Keble College, Oxford; Entered I.C.S.; 1883; Deputy-Commissioner, 1896; Judicial Commissioner, N.W. Frontier, 1901. Address: Peshawar, India.

Bundi, H.H. Maharao Raja Sir Raghubir Singhji Bahadur, K.C.I.E., 1894; K.C.S.I.. 1897. G.C.I.E. 1900; G.C.V.O., 1911; b. 1868; S. 1889; area of the State, 2220 square miles; population, over 17,000. Address: Bundi, Rajputana, India.

Burdwan, Maharaja of; H.H. Sir Bija Chand Mahtab, K.C.I.E., (1910) I.O.M., (1909) Maharaj Adhiraja Bahadur; a.s. of the late Maharaj Adhiraja; b, 1881; installed, 1903; visited Europe many times; Member, Imperial and Bengal Legislative Councils; saved Sir Andrew Eraser, Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, when he was about to be assasinated, by standing between the assassin and the Lieutenant Governor, 1910; reformed the administration of the estate; Fellow, Royal Geographical Society; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts; Fellow, North British Academy: Member, Royal Asiatic Society; and President, British Indian Association, Calcutta. Publications: “Vijia Gitika”, “Studies”, “Diary of a European Tour”, Etc. Recreations: Tennis, golf and rowing. Address: Burdwan, Alipur, Calcutta, Kurseong, and Darjeeling. Clubs: Aftab Burdwan; Calcutta Club; Gymkhana, Darjeeling.

Burgess, James, C.I.E. 1885; Hon. LL.D., Edin. 1881, E.R.S.E., Hon. A.R.I.B.A., F.R.G.S.; b. Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire,

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