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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

McLeod.

1903-06; retired, 1906. Address: Holy Mount, Inkpen, Berks. Club: United Service.

McLeod, Sir John Chatham, G C.B. (1891).; b. 1831; s. of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander McLeod; educ: at St. Andrew’s and Perth Academy; served for over 30 years in the 2nd Royal Highlanders; in Crimia, 1854-55; Indian Mutiny; 1857-58; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel and C.B. Ashanti war, 1873-74; Commanded troops in Ceylon, 1882-87; Colonel of the Black Watch Royal Highlanders, 1907: retired, 1908. Address: Bellvin; North Berwick. Club: United Service.

McLeod, N. C., B.A., Bar-at-Law; Judge, High Court, Bombay; s. of late R. B. McLeod of Cadball, Rosshire; b. 1866; educ: Wellington College, New College, Oxford; called to Bar, 1890; Official Assignee, Bombay, 1900: Member, Imperial Legislative Council, 1908; appointed as Judge, High Court, Bombay, 1910. Address: Mount Pleasant Road, Bombay, India.

McMillan, A., M.A., Bar-at-Law, I.C.S. (retired.); 2nd s. of late John McMillan, of Kirkcud, Bright; m. Nellie, d. of James Fortescue Harrison; 1888; educ: Aldenham School. Brasenose College, Oxford; Exhibitioner, Merton College, 1864; 1st in classical Moderations, 1866; joined I.C.S., 1868; Under Secretary to Government, N.W.P., 1874-77; District Judge in Meerut, Agra, Cawnpore and Lucknow, in the years 1884, 1886, 1890 and 1892, respectively; called to Bar (Inner Temple). 1883; Professor of Indian Jurisprudence and Indian History King’s College, London, 1899-02; Consul for the Alpes Maritimes and Manaeo, 1902-10; was instrumental for the erection of Victoria Memorial Hospital at Nice. Publications: Divers Ditties; Portentous prophets prophetesses; Mainly about Robert Bruce; Essence of Ecclesiastic, in Metre of Omar Khayyam; Clubs: Savile, Hurlingham.

McMahon, Sir Arthur Henry, K.C.I.E., (1906), C.S.I.,(1897),C.I.E., (1894); F.S.A., F.L.S.; b. 1862; s. of Lieutenant-General C. A. McMahon; educ: at Haileybery and Sandhurst; joined the Army, 1883; transferred to Indian Staff Corps, 1885; entered the Punjab Commission, 1887; joined the Indian Political Department, 1890; Political Agent at Zhob, 1891, and 1893; accompanied the Durand Mission to Kabul, 1693, Commissioner for demarcating boundary between Beluchistan and Afghanistan, 1894-96; Political Agent at Dir, Swet, and Chitral, 1899-1901; Revenue and Judicial Conmissioner; Beluchistan, 1901; Commissioner to settle the Perso-Afghan boundary, 1903; Agent to Governor General in Beluchistan, 1905; Secretary to Government of India (Foreign Department), and Member of Imperial Legislative Council. Address: Calcutta. Club: United Service.

Mcnalty, Lieut-Colonel George William, M.D., L.R.C.S.I., F.R.C.S.I., C.B. (1897); b. 1837; s. of G. W. Mcnalty; educ: at Dublin, Wiesbaden and London; joined the Army Medical Staff, 1863; served in the British Ambulance in the Franco-German War, 1871; Ashanti War, 1873-74;

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