INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Islington.
additional surname and arms of Poynder, 1888; patron of two livings; Chairman, Board of Trade Arbtiration Court; Hon: Lieutenant in the Army, and a Knight of justice of Order of St. John of Jerusalam in England; Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion Royal Scots (Lothion Regiment), and Major and Hony L. Col, Royal Ciltshire Yeamonry; served in South Africa with his Battalion, 1909 (despetches D.S.O.); Member, Royal Commission on London Traffic, 1904; Member, Royal Commission on Trade Relations between Canada and West Indies, 1909-10; elected M.P. for Wilts N.W., or Chippenham (c), 1892; re-elected, October 1900 Baron Islington, of Islington Co. London (peerage of United Kingdom), 1910; President, Royal Public Services Commission, India, 1912. Address: Government House, Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand. Seats, Hartham, Corshom. Clubs: Turf, Marlborough, Brookes.
Iyengar, Duraiswami, Wubhayavedantapuram; Manager, Messrs Longmans, Green & Co., Madras; s. of W. Srinivasa Iyengar; b. 1872; joined service in the Educational Department, as clerk, office of the Inspector of Schools, Central Circle, Madras, 1893; joined Christ Church European School, Madras, as 1st Assistant, 1896; head clerk attached to Pachaiyappa’s College, Madras, 1908; Manager, Messrs Thompson & Co., Madras, 1905; joined Messrs. Longman, Green & Co., as Madras representative, 1905; acted as Manager, Bombay Branch of that firm; Secretary, Sree Krishna Gana Sabha, Madras; Member, Suguna Vilasa Sabha; Member and latterly Secretary, Oriental Dramatic Company of Southern India; Captain of the Pachaiyappa’s College Cricket Club. Publications; joint author of several Telugu and Tamil books for schools. Recreation: Music. Address: Car Street, Triplicane, Madras. Club: Suguna Vilasa Sabha, Madras.
Iyengar, A. Narasimha, Rai Bahadur (1887), retired Durbar Bakshi, Mysore; b. 1845; Honorary Secretary, Maharani’s College since 1888; took a prominent part in the founding of that College, 1880; has founded a Brahmin Widow’s Home in Mysore of which he has been Honorary Secretary since its foundation; deeply interested in the amelioration of the position of women in India. Address; Mysore, India.
Iyengar, Asur Rangaswmai, M.A., B.L. Rao Bahadur, Revenue Commissioner (retired), Mysore State; b. 1851; B.A., 1869; B.L. 1874; joined Mysore Service, 1870; Puisne Judge, Chief Court, Mysore, 1874; rose to the position of Revenue Commissioner; Rao Bahadur, 1911, retired, 1912. Address: Bangalore city, Mysore Province, India.
Iyengar, Dr. Ramaswami S. Y., M.D., L.R.C.P. and S. (Ed.), L.R.P. and S. (Glasgow), Personal Assistant to Senior Surgeon and Government Oculist, Mysore State; b, 1863; educ: at the Central College, Bangalore; Maharajas College, Mysore, and the Medical College, Madras; M.D. 1888; Edinburgh and Glasgow degrees, 1890; joined Service as Assistant Surgeon, Bangalore, 1899; Science Teacher, H.H, Maharani’s Girl’s School, 1893; reverted to Bangalore and was in charge of the Leper and
