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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

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twice. Address: 29, Banbury Road, Oxford.

Schmidt, Clarence Rose Macaulay, Inspector-General of Registration, Madras; b. 1865; joined service as clerk, Chief Secretariat, 1885; French Translator to Government, 1894; Registrar, Chief Secretariat, 1905; Inspector-General of Registration, 1909. Address: Monteith Road, Egmore, Madras.

Schuster, Sir Felix, Member of the India Council, London; 3rd s. of late Francis Joseph Schuster; b. 1854; educ: Frankfort-on-Maine, Geneva; and Owen’s College. Manchester; Director, Union Bank of London, Ltd., since 1883; Governor of the same Bank, 1895; Member, Royal Commission on London Traffic, 1903-05; Member, Board of Trade Commission for the Amendment of the Company Law, 1905; Member, India Office Committee on Indian Railway Commission and Administration, 1907-08; Member, Treasury Committee on Irish Land Purchase Finance, 1907-8; Chairman, Council of the Chamber of Commerce, London, 1905-06; President, Council of the Institute of Bankers, London, 1908-09; Deputy Chairman of the Central Association of Bankers; Governor, University College, London; Governor, London School of Economics; formerly Honorary Secretary and Vice-President of the Alpine Club; Member, Committee of Management of the Hospital for Sick Children; Member, Council of the British Empire League; m. Lucy Edith, 3rd d. of W. B. Skene of Hallyards, Fife; heir and son Ferdinand Victor. Publications: Our Gold Reserves; Foreign Trade and the Money Market; The Bank of England and the State, &c. Recreations: Music, Travelling and Motoring. Address: 48, Cadogen Place, S.W. Clubs: Brooks’s; Alpine.

Schwann, Sir Charles Ernest, P.C, 1911; M.P.; first Baronet (1906); b. 1844; s. of F. Schwann; educ: University College, London; was Secretary, Treasurer and President of Manchester Liberal Association; President of the Reform Club; President for nine years of National Reform Union; carried Bill for granting votes to Policemen in Municipal and School Board elections; assisted in abolishing paddy-tax in Ceylon; m. Elizabeth, d. of David Duncan of Manchester, 1876; 4 s. one d. Heirs: Charles Duncan, b. 1879. Address: 4, Prince’s Gardens, S.W. Club: Reform, Manchester.

Scoble, Right Hon’ble Sir Andrew Richard, K.C.; K.C.S.I. (1890), C.S.I. (1889), P.C. (1901); s. of late John Scoble; b. 1831; educ: at the city of London School; called to Bar (Lincoln’s Inn). 1856; Q.C., 1876; Treasurer of Hon. Society of Lincoln’s Inn; 1899; Advocate-General and Member, Legislative Council, Bombay, 1870-77, Member, Council of Governor-General, India, 1886-91; Member, Indian Military and Civil Expenditure Commission, 1895; M.P. for Hackney, 1892-1900; Member, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; m. Augusta Hariette (died 1904) o.d. of late Joseph Nicholson, 1863. Publications: Guizot’s History of English Revolution (translation); Mignet’s History of Mary Queen of Scots.

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