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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

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‘Tagore Castle’, Calcutta; 18, British Indian Street, Calcutta.

Raye, Colonel Daniel O’Connell, M.D., I.M.S., (retired): joined service in India, 1876; Resident Surgeon, General Hospital, Calcutta, 1885; Professor, Medical College, and Surgeon to College Hospital, Calcutta, 1881; Principal Medical Officer, Calcutta, 1895; Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Punjab, 1S95; retired, 1899.

Raymond, Colonel Francis, F.R.C.V.S., C.I.E., (1912): Indian Civil Veterinary Department (retired); b. 1854:; joined Home service, 1878; became Major, 1898; served in the Zulu War; Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Bengal, 1896; Lt.-Col. 1905; served in South Africa (medal with clasp), 1879; served in Chitral expedition (medal with clasp), 1895; became Colonel, 1908; retired. 1912. Address: V. College, Bellagachia, Bengal. Club: Constitutional.

Raynor, William Downing, M.A., Principal, Doveton College, Madras; s. of Rev. Edwin Raynor; b. St. Lawrence, Kent, 1876; educ: Christ’s Hospital, London, and Hertford College, Oxford; passed B.A., 1896; M.A., 1900; Classical Exhibitioner; won final Honors in Science; joined service as teacher in the Grammar School, Bradford; came out to India as Principal, Doveton Protestant College, Madras, 1912; m. Alice, d. of Dr. W. P. Dale. Address: Doveton College, Vepery, Madras.

Rea, Alexander, F.S.A. (Scot), Superintendent, Archaeological Survey of S. India (Retd.); b. 1858; educ: Glasgow; joined service, 1882: First Assistant. Archaeological Survey of S. India. 1882; acting Lecturer on Art and Geometry in the School of Arts. Madras, 1888-84; Professional Adviser to Government on the conservation of ancient monuments; Member for Archaeology on the Sub-Committee on the Public Services Commission, 1887; deputed to examine and report on certain Pre-historic burial places in Madras, Chingleput, and Kodaikanal, July 1887; Assistant Editor, “Epigraphia Indica” and Record of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1888; In charge of the Office of the Archaeological Survey of Western India, 9th July to 8th October, 1889; Archaeological Surveyer, 1890; Superintendent, Archaeological Survey, Madras, 1891; deputed to examine and report on the ancient remains in Coorg, 1893; Honorary Assistant Superintendent, Central Museum, Madras, 1903; retired, 1913. Publications: A description of the ruins of “Vijayanagar” in the Madras Christian College Magazine, 1886; “Some Pre-historic Burial Places in Southern India” in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1888; “Method of Archaeological preservation in India” in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1890; “Pallava Architecture”, etc. Address: Bangalore, Mysore State.

Rebesch, Hon’ble Samuel, M.Inst.C.E., Executive Engineer, (retired), Bombay; one of the oldest Officers of the P.W.D.; educ: King’s College, London, and Cooper’s Hill; joined service as Assistant Superintendent, 1875; Executive Engineer (Irrigation Branch) in charge of Sholapur,

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