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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Lyall.

Cricket, Racqets, Shooting. Address: Metherclay House: Bishop’s Hull, Taunton. Clubs: The East India United Service.

Lyall, Sir James Broadwood, K.C.S.I.. (1893), G.C.I.E., I.C.S., (retired); b. England, 1838; s. of Rev. Alfred Lyall, Rector of Harbledown, Kent; m. Katherine, d. of Rev. J. Cantly, 1874; educ: Eton; Haileybury College; joined service in Bengal, 1857; arrived in India, 1858; joined the Punjab Commission, 1859; Resident in Mysore and Chief Commissioner of Coorg, 1883-87; Lieut.-Governor, Punjab, 1887-92, visited China, Japan, Canada and the U.S.A. 1893; was appointed Member, Royal Commission on Opinion; revisited India in that capacity, 1893; President, Indian Finance Commission, 1898. Recreations: Golf, Cycling, Shooting. Address: Statenborough House, Eastry, Dover. Club: Athenaeum.

Lyle, Hon’ble Henry Ward, LL.B., Judge, High Court, U.P., India; educ: at Winchester, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; passed I.C.S., examination, 1884; joined service, 1887; served in the lower grades of the service; was Deputy Superintendent of the family domains of H.H. the Maharajah of Benares, 1892; District and Sessions Judge, 1897-02; Judge, High Court, U.P. Address: Allahabad, U.P., India

Lyon, Hon’ble Mr Percy Comyn, C.S.I. (1908). I.C.S.; s. of Wm. Lyon; b. 1862; educ: King’s School, Brunton, and Orial College, Oxford; joined I.C.S. in Bengal; was Private Secretary to Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal; served in various mofusil stations; became the first Chief Secretary to the Governmient of Eastern Bengal and Assam. 1905; Member, Board of Revenue, E. Bengal and Assam. and Member, Imperial Legislative Council, 1909; Member, Executive Council, Bengal, since 1912. Recreations, golf, riding. Address: Calcutta, India.

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MacBean, Major-General Forbes, C.V.O. (1905); b. 1857; s. of Colonel Forbes MacBean; educ: at Uppingham; entered the Army, 1876; served in the Afghan War, 1879-80; in engagements at Kabul and the march to Kandahar; Transvaal Campaign: 1881; Tirah Expedition, 1897-98; severely wounded; South African War, 1899-1902; became Captain, 1884; Major, 1893; C.B., and Brevet-Colonel, 1902; Colonel, 1905; Major-General, 1911; A.D.C. to H.M. the Emperor, 1907-11; Club: Army and Navy.

Macci, Muhammed Zahiruddin, B.A., Superintendent of Police, Mysore State; belongs to the Kazi family of Mysore whose members have successively been holding the post of Kazi of Bangalore and its suberbs, and whose claims for the office have been recognised by the successive ruling dynasties; b. at Bangalore, 1872; educ: Central College, Bangalore, the Madras Christian College, and the Madras Law Colloge; passed B.A., 1893; studied for Law and passed the F.L. Examination, 1895; was a scholarship holder from the State of Mysore; also held a scholarship of Rs. 45 a month from the Government of Hy-

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