INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Desaraj.
Cavalry, 1885; Subedar, 1887, saw active Service in Burma, 1886; services lent to Mysore State, 1887; Assistant to Military Secretary and A.D.C. to H.H. The Maharaja; resigned British Service, 1890; Commandant, Imperial Service Regiment. Mysore Lancers, 1894; Lieut-Col. Mysore Army, 1894; Milty Sec. to Mysore Government, 1896; Chief Commandant, Mysore State Troops, 1897. m. a sister (d. 1904) of the present Maharajah, leaving many children. Recreations: Polo, and Horse-racing. Address: Cangalore, Mysore Province, India.
De Saram, John Henricus, C.M.G. (1901): b. 1844; s. of Frederick John de Saram of Colombo. Ceylon; m. 1867. Amelia Caroline (d. 1891), 2nd d. of Sir Richard P. Mornan, Kt., Queen’s Advocate of Ceylon; educ: Cblombo Academy (now the Royal College); St. Thomas’s College Colombo; King’s College School, London; entered Ceylon Civil Service, District Judge, Badulla, 1867, Commissioner of Requests, Colombo, 1868; District Judge, 1875 to 1883; Fiscal and Registrar Genciral, Colombo, 1886; District Judge, Jaffna, Galle, and Kandy respectively; Acting Treasurer of the Colony, 1902; again District Judge. Kandy, 1902; retired, 1906; acting Commissioner of Assize’s Colombo, 1908. Address: Hillside. Kandy, Ceylon.
Deshon, Lieut.-General Frederick George Thomas, C.B. (1904); Col. King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; b. 1818; s. of Major Peter Deshon, 43rd and 75th Regiments, m. 1st, 1851, Mary (d. 1853), d. of William Hooton Doverill, 2nd, 1875, Julia (d. 1904), d. of Alexander Tower; entered Army as Ensign, 56th Regt, 1837 served with 22nd Regt. in Scinde, 1843; present at the battle of Hyderabad (medal); in the Southern Mahratta Campaign, 1844-45; landed with the 48th Regt. in the Crimea, and was present at the siege and fall of Sebastopol (medal with clasp. Turkish medal, 5th class of the Medjidie, and Crevet Major); Assist. Inspector of Volunteers, 1865-70; Col. Kingstown Yorkshire L.I. retired, 1881. Address: Chorin House, Bathampton, Bath.
Deshon, Col. Charles John, D.S.O., 1889; b. 1840; y.s. of late Lieut. Col. C. J. Deshon;m. 1864, e.d. of late Major Loftus Cassidy; educ; King’s School, Canterbury; entered R.A., 1859; Capt, 1872; Major, 1880; Lt. Col, 1886; Col, 1891; Served Burmah, 1886-87 (despatches); Hazara Expedition, 1888 (despatches. D.S.O.); retired, 1892. Address: c/o India office, London.
Desika Chariar, Sir Yembakam C. Kt. (1906), B.A., B.L., Judge, Court of Small Causes, Madras; s. of late Mr. Rajagopala Chariar; b, 1861; educ; Presidency College, Madras; B.A., 1882; B.L., 1886; enrolled as Vakil, 1887; Commenced practice in the Madras High Court; Member, Madras Corporation, 1896-1908; Lecturer, Madras Law College, 1896-1900; Addl. Member, Madras Legislative Council, 1904-08; Fellow, Madras University, since 1903; Member of the Faculty of Law, Madras University; Trustee, Victoria Memoral Fund, and Member, Council of the Victoria Technical Institute, Madras; Secretary, Madras Central Urban Bank Ld., Mylapore; President, Conference of Co-operative credit Societies, Utteramerur Chingleput Dt., 1912. Address: Padma Vilas, Luz, Mylapore
