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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Manickshaw.

cal College, Bombay; obtained Sir Dinshaw Petit scholarship, and Reid scholarship and completed the course, 1903; won the Queen Empress Silver Medal, Lady Reary Gold Medal, Sandhurst Gold Medal, etc. Address: Bombay, India.

Manifold, Colonel Courtenay Clarke, M.B., I.M.S., C.B. (1914), Inspector-General, Civil Hospitals, since 1913; Member, Legislative Council, U.P. Address: Allahabad, U.P., India.

Manipur, Raja of; H.H. Chura Chand Singh; b. 1885; educ: at the Chief’s College, Ajmere; succeeded to gaddi, 1891; formally installed, 1907; area of the State, 3,456 square miles; population, 285,000; revenue, about 4 lakhs; the Raja is entitled to a salute of 11 guns. Address: Manipur, Assam, India.

Mann, Major G. F., D.S.O., (1893), R.F.A., Commanding the 80th Battery at Saugor; served with the Burmese Expedition, 1892; present at the defence of Sadon, where he was slightly wounded; present at the subsequent opera tions of the Irrawaddy Column; mentioned in despatches; served with the Sima Column in Upper Burma; was in the Campaign on the North-West Frontier of India under the late Sir William Lockhart, including the operations on the Saniana range and in the Kurram valley, as staff officer to the Jeypore Transport Corps, 1797-98; served with the Tirrah Expeditionary Force in command of a mountain battery; obtained the Brevet of Major, 1900; returned to India, and was posted to command the 80th Battery; General Staff Officer, 1910. Address: Simla, India.

Mann, Harold Hart, D.Sc, F.I.C., F.I.S., Principal, College of Agriculture, Poona; s. of late W. E. Mann of York; b. 1872; educ: Elmfield School, York, and Pasteur Institute, Paris; joined service as Chemical Assistant for Research, Royal Agricultural Society, 1898-00; Scientific Officer, India Tea Association, 1900-7; Principal, College of Agriculture, and Agricultural Chemist to the Government of Bombay, since 1907; attended the 2nd Session of the Indian Science Congress held at Madras where he delivered an Address on “The Lines of Development of Indian Agriculture”, January 1915. Publications: ‘The Pests and Blights of the Tea Plant’, and a number of minor ones dealing on questions relating to culture and manufacture of tea (in conjunction with Sir G. Watt). Recreation: Social study. Address: College of Agriculture, Poona, India. Club: Calcutta.

Mannaru Krishna Rao, Kamaraja, B.A., Rao Sahib, Government Pleader, Guntur; b. Ongole, 1872; educ: Baptist Mission High School, Ongole, and the Christian College, Madras; passed B.A., 1893; commenced practice at Ongole, 1894; removed to Guntur after the formation of District Court in that place, 1905; appointed Government Pleader the same year; was Chairman, Municipal Council, Ongole, 1901-05; took a leading part in organising the Ongole Cattle Show; organised the Guntur District Agricultural

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