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Rutherford, Vickerman Henzell, M.A., M.B., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., M.P. (L). Brentford division, Middlesex; b. 1860; educ: Edinburgh High School; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; contested Osgolderess division, Yorks, 1900; Physician, St. John’s Hospital for diseases of skin, Physician, Newcastle Hospital; Medical Officer, Newcastle School Board, House Physician, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; interested himself greatly in Indian matters and was responsible for a larger number of questions put in the House of Commons relating to Indian affairs. Address: 6 Cambridge Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.

Ryves, Hon’ble Mr. Justice, A. E., Bar-at-Law, Offg. Judge, High Court, U.P.; educ: at Clifton and Trinity Colleges, Oxford; Officiating Government Advocate, U.P., 1898; confirmed, 1904; Acting Judge, High Court, Calcutta, 1908; Officiating Judge, Chief Court, Punjab, 1910; Offg. Judge, High Court, U.P., 1913. Address: Allahabad, U.P., India.

Ryves, Captain Thomas James, Indian Police (retired); served as a volunteer in the Mutiny of 1857; joined service as Adjutant, Military Police; Bijnaur 1850; Assistant Inspector-General, Rohilkhand, 1861; Superintendent of Police in various places; Assistant Inspector-General, Railway Police, 1888; Deputy Inspector-General, 1892; retired, 1895.

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Saadulla, Hon’ble Maulvi Syed Muhammad, Member of Legislative Council, Assam, since 1913. Address: Gauhati, Assam, India.

Sabins, Raghunath Vyenkaji, B.A. Rao Bahadur, Dewan of Kolhapur; b. 1857; educ: Kolhapur High School, and Elphinstone College, Bombay; joined service in the educational department, 1878; became Deputy Inspector, 1893; services lent to Kolhapur State, 1896; became Chief Revenue Officer of the State; retired from British service, 1898; rose to the position of Dewan, 1905; was presented to His late Majesty Emperor Edward VII at the Coronation, 1902; Member, Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay Branch; Member, Royal Society of Arts; President of the Society for encouragement of the Depressed Classes. Recreations: Tennis and Riding. Address: Kolhapur, Bombay Presidency, India.

Sachau, Dr. Eduard Carl, Professor in the Royal University of Berlin; b. at Neuminster, Schleswig-Holstein, 1845; s. of Claus Jacob Sachau; educ: at Rendsburg Keil, Leipzig and Berlin; Catalogued the Persian MSS. in the Bodleian Library, 1869; Professor of Semitic Languages, at Vienna, 1869-76; Professor of Oriental Languages at the Royal University, Berlin, 1876; since 1887 Director of the Seminary for living Oriental Languages at Berlin; travelled much in different parts of Asia, and is well known as a Semitic scholar. Publications: His great work in relation to India is his Arabic Edition of Alberuni’s India; An Account of the Civilisation of India about A.D. 1030, published 1887, followed by an English Edition of the same, 1888; has also published Arabische Studien, dealing with the same period; Chronology of Ancient Nations,

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