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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Gopalacharlu.

brahmin of an ancient and highly successful family of physicians both on the maternal and paternal sides; completed a five years’ course in the Maharaja’s Sanskrit College, Mysore; underwent practical training in Medicine, etc., at the Government Hospital and secured Certificates; visited centres of Ayurvedic learning, such as, Benares, Calcutta, Cashmere, Lahore, Hardwar, Jeypore, etc; was in charge of a Dispensary at Bangalore, and made successful experiments in the Indian Pharmacopœa: is Senior Ayurvedic Physician, S.K.P.D. Free Ayurvedic Dispensary, Madras; Principal, S.K.P.D. Ayurvedic College, Madras; has established an “Ayurvedic Laboratory” in Madras, where medicines according to Ayurvedic principles are prepared; has won gold Medals and first class Certificates at the exhibitions held in Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and several other places; the title of “Bhishangmani” was conferred on him by an Assembly of Ayurvedic physicians of Calcutta, 1907; the title of “Ayurveda Marthanda”, by the Skhila Bharata Varshiva Sri Savaji Ayurvedic Vidya Bitta of Nasik, 1907; is a Fellow of the Ayurvedic University of Nasik; Examiner of Mysore Ayurvedic Vidwat Examinations, Commentator of Susrutha Samhita and Madhana Nihana. Address: No. 44, Acharappan Street, Georgetown, Madras, India.

Gopal Menon, C., Dubash, Messrs Wilson and Co., Madras; b. Calicut, 1873: educ; Municipal Primary School, and the Zamorin’s College, Calicut; held a Government of Madras Scholarship of Rs. 12 a month for 2 years, and received commercial training in the Teacher’s College, Saidapet; was the only one that was placed in the first class in the Intermediate grade examination of Shortland; passed first in the highest grade of Government examination in Business Correspondence and won the Government Gold Medal; passed first in the examination in Banking, Economics, Book-keeping and Commercial Geography; won a first class Teacher’s certificate in Commercial subjects; started his career as a teacher for the commercial classes (evenings) in the Madras Y.M.C.A.; was for sometime Superintendent, Pachiappa’s Commercial School, Madras; joined the late firm of Arbuthnot and Co., 1894; became Dubash of that firm, 1891; obtained the Preliminary and Final certificates of the Institutes of Bankers, London, and was admitted as a Life-Associate, 1903-4; obtained the Fellowship certificate of the Incorporated Phonographic Society, London; the certificate of the Institute of Commerce, Birmingham; was a Member of the British Economic Association; was a Correspondence Student, Ruskin Hall, Oxford, 1904-5; is a Member of the Educational League, Oxford; worked in conjunction with Mr. C. A. Paterson, for the founding of the Shorthand Writer’s Association, of which he was for sometime Honorary Secretary and now Vice President; is an Honorary Secretary, Madras Mahajana Sabha, and the National Fund and Industrial Association; Member, Executive Committee of the South Indian Chamber of Commerce, and the South Indian Association, Madras; is an Honorary Magistrate; was Hony. Treasurer, Indian National Congress held in Madras, 1914, and Hony Secretary, Indian Industrial Conference, also held in Madras, 1914;

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