INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Nagendra.
1886; began practice in Bilaspur, 1857; Vice-President and President of the Municipal Committee; also Honorary Magistrate; President, Bilaspur District Council, since 1888. Address: Bilaspur, C.P., India .
Nagpur, Bishop of; Right Rev. Eyre Chatterton, D.D., F.R.G.S.; s. of late A. I. Chatterton; educ: Haileybury; Senior Moderator and Gold Medalist in Ethics and Logic, and first Theological Exhibitioner; ordained, 1887; Curate, Holy Trinity, Stockton-on-Tees, 1887-91; came out to India as Head of the Dublin University Mission in Chota-Nagpur, 1891-1900; Curate of Richmond in Surrey, 1901-O2; Bishop of Nagpur since 1903; this Bishopric includes the Central Provinces, Central India, Rajputana, and Benares. Publications: The Story of Fifty Years’ Mission Work in Chota-Nagpur. Address: Nagpur, C.P., India.
Nair, Sir Chettur Sankaran, Kt., C.I.E. (see Sankaran Nair).
Nair, Krishnan, M., B.A., B.L., Dewan of Travancore; b. in a village near Palghat; educ: Government College, Calicut, and the Madras Christian College; passed B.A., 1889; was a teacher and journalist; passed B.L., 1893; enrolled as Vakil, 1894; one of the staunch supporters of the Indian Congress movement; represented the Southern Group of Municipalities in the Madras Legislative Council, 1903; appointed Dewan of Travancore, 1913. Address: Triyandrum, Travancore State, S. India.
Nair, Dr. T. Madhavar, M.D., Municipal Commissioner, Madras; educ: Government High School, Palghat, and the Presidency College, Madras, proceeded to England and joined the Edinburgh University, 1889: passed M.B. and C.M., 1894; was House Surgeon, Throats and Ear Hospital, Brighton; passed M.D., 1836; on special work in connection with ear and throat diseases in Paris; returned to India and settled down in Madras, 1837; was a Member, University Students’ Representative Council, Edinburgh for two years; was Secretary and then President of the Edinburgh Indian Association; was a Member of the University Liberal Association as well as of the University Union; was one of the editors of the University Magazine called “The Student”; Secretary and then Vice-President, London Indian Society, is a Member of the British Medical Association, the Royal Asiatic Society, the National Liberal Club, and the Royal Society’s Club, London; is now a nominated Member of the Madras Legislative Council, of which he was an elected Member before; was an elected Member of the Madras Corporation which he suddenly resigned; sought re-election and was returned at the head of the poll; defeated in another attempt at election, and was then nominated by Government as Member of the Madras Corporation; Fellow, Madras University, 1910; Member of the Faculty of Medicine of the Madras University; unsuccessfully contested for a seat in the Imperial Legislative Council; Editor of “Antiseptic”, a monthly journal of Medicine and Surgery published in Madras; pro-
