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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Gwalior.

College and Maharaja’s Palace at Ujjain, the Gwalior Light Railway and the Ujjain Water Works; maintains Arts College at Lashkar, a Training School for officials, two Sardar’s schools (one for boys, and one for girls), a Military school, and an Engineering school; opened a large number of hospitals and dispensaries all over the State; opened relief works in the famine of 1899-00 costing over 38 lakhs and distributed over 14 laKhs in gratutious relief; area of the State, 2504 square miles; population, about 8 millions; revenue, 150 lakhs; Hony Colonel and Extra A.D.C. to H.M. the Emperor; Hony Colonel, British Army, 1891; went to China as Orderly Officer to General Sir C Gaselee, 1901; provided the expedition with a hospital ship at his cost; Hon Colonel, 1st Duke of York’s Own Lancers, 1906: visited England on the occasion of the Coronation of Emperor Edward VII, 1902; maintains 3 regiments of Imperial Service Cavalry, 2 Battalions of Imperial Service Intantry, and a Transport Corps which served in the Chitral and Tirah Campaigns; 2 batteries of horse artillery, 3 bullock batteries, one elephant battery and 5 battalions of Intantry. The real capital of the State is Lashkar, 2 miles south of the ancient city of Gwalior and contains the palace of the Maharaja, who also has palaces built at Sipri and Ujjain; entitled to a Salute of 19 guns. Address: Gwalior, Central India.

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Habib-ul-Rahman Khan, M.D., M.V. (Lepzig), Deputy Superintendent of Telegraphs, U.P.; the 1st Indian to be admitted a Member of the Royal Institue, London; rccepient of congratulations from such distinguished personages as H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught. Earl Roberts, Earl Curzon, Lord and Lady Reay, Lord Lamington and others; Member, Royal Asiatic Society of London, and Bengal; Member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Address: Allahabad, U.P., India.

Habib-ur-Rahman Khan, Khan Sahib; sub-editor, Fonzi Akhbah, Delhi; s. of late Moulvi Haji Abdur Rahim Khan Sahib, Imam of the first Bengal Cavalry, and who founded the Jumma Mosque and a School at Ghajjar; served in the Indian Army for 22 years; resigned and became a journalist; Khan Sahib, 1911. Address: Kalam Mahal, Delhi, India.

Hackett, Very Rev Henry Monck Mason, M.A., B.D., Hony D.C.L. Hon. LL.D, Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Waterford; educ; Trinity College, Dublin; Ordained, 1875; Curate of Cambridge, 1875-77: sent out as S.M.S. Missionary to Benares, 1877-1881; Allahabad, 1881-86; Minister of Christ Church Richmond, Surrey, 1886-11: Christ Church, Hampstead, 1892 94; Principal St. Paul’s Divinity school, Allahabad, 1892-96; Principal, Montreal Theological Diocesan 1891-1903; Canon, Waterford, 1903; Dean, Waterford. 1904. Address: Cathedral, Waterford.

Hadaway, William Snelling, Superintendent, School of Arts, Madras; b. 1872; joined service as Supt, School of Arts, Madras, 1907. Address: Egmore, Madras, India.

Hadi, Syed Mahammed, Khan Bahadur, M.R.A.S. Dy Commissioner; b. 1864; educ; Sultanpur High School, and the Royal College,

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