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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Hartnell.

Court, Lower Burma, 1906; Offg Chief Judge, 1911. Address: Rangoon, Burma.

Harvey, William Leathern. I.C.S., C.I.E., 1904, Secretary to Government of India, Deptt. of Commerce and Industry; since, 1905. educ: at the Royal Academical Institute, Belfast, and Trinity College, Dublin; joined service in India; Assistant Collector, 1883; Under-Secretary to Government, Revenue, Financial and General Deptts, 1891; Dy. Accountant-General, 1895; Municipal Commissioner, Bombay, 1898; introduced for the first time in Bombay, the system of electric lighting: Member, Bombay Port Trust, and the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute. Address: Simla, India.

Hasankhan Mahdhub, Khan Bahadur; Member of the Bihar and Orissa Legislative Council; took his seat, 1913.

Hasanpur, Raja of; Mahommed Mehdi Ali Khan; A certain Jai Chand (of the clan of Bachkoti Rajputs) embraced the Moslem faith under the name of Tatar Khan and it is from him the present Raja is descended. At the time of the Mutiny of 1857, Husain Ali Khan, the then holder of the estate was in command of a rebel army at Sultanpur against the British but after the mutiny, he was pardoned and restored to his estate and the family has since then remained faithful to the British. The present Raja is an Honorary Magistrate for the Police Circles of Sultanpur, Jaisingpur and Kurebhar. The estate comprises 102 villages and 6 patties in Sultanpur, and 2 villages and one patti in Fyzabad; Raja, 1864. Address: Hasanpur, Sultanpur, U.P., India.

Hastings, Maj.-Gen. Francis Eddowes, C.B. (1894); b. India, 1843; e.s. of late Surg.-Gen. T. Hastings; m. Isabella Barbara, d. of late John Hastings, 1874; educ; at home; entered Indian Army, Bengal, 1859; served in Afghanistan, 1879-80; in Marri Expedition; 1880; in Hazara Expedition, 1888 and with the Zhob Valley Expedition, 1890; retired, 1895. Address: c/o India Office, London.

Hatchell, David George; Director, Madras Survey, Madras; b. 1865; joined service as probationery Asst Superintendent of Survey, 1885; became Superintendent, 1901; posted to present appointment, 1907. Address: Madras, India.

Hatwa, Maharaja of; Maharaj Guru Mahadev Asram Prasad Sahi; s. of Maharaja Bahadur Sir Kishen Pratap Sahi, K.C.I.E; b. 1893; succeeded as a minor, 1896; head of the Bagochia brahmin family that claims to have been settled in the Sarain district for 102 generations; holds large estate in Saram, Shahabad, Champaran Mozzurpore and Durbhangah districts. Address: Hathwa P.O., Saran District, Beliar and Orissa, India.

Hatwa, Maharani of; Maharani Gyan Manjari Kuori, K.H.G.M.; widow of Maharaja Jiahadur Sir Kishen Pratap Sahi, K.C.I.E., and mother of Maharaj Guru Mahadev Asram Prasad Sahi, the present Maharaja of Hatwa; Addrees: Hathwa P.O. Saran District, Behar and Orissa, India.

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