INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Stawell.
Stawell, G. C., Chief Engineer, Rangoon; educ: R.I.E. College, London; joined service as Assistant Engineer. 1884; Executive Engineer, 1896; transferred to Burma, 1905; Superintending Engineer, 1907; Chief Engineer, 1913. Address: Rangoon, Burma.
Stebbing, Edward Percy, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., Indian Forest Service; Lecturer in Forestry and Head of the Forestry Department, University of Edinburgh, since 1910; b. 1870; s. of Edward Charles Stebbing; m. 1907, Maud Evelyn, o.d. of late Colonel W. T. Brown, Indian Army, of Warboro’ House, South Devonshire; one s. educ: St. Paul’s School; Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper’s Hill; Prize in Forest Entomology, 1892; Diploma in Forestry, 1893; Assistant Conservator of Forests, Indian Forest Service, 1893; Deputy Conservator, 1900; Forest Entomologist to the Government of India, 1901-02, and 1904-06; Acting Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 1903; Forest Zoologist to Government of India and Member of Imperial Forest Research Institute and College, 1906-09; Hon. Editor, Indian Forester, 1903-07. Publications: Injurious Insects of Indian Forests, Departmental Notes on Forest Insects; Manual of Indian Forest Zoology; Insect Intruders in Indian Houses; Jungle By-ways in India; Stalks in the Himalaya; Indian Forest Insects of Economic Importance, 1914. Contributions to the Allahabad Pioneer, Calcutta, Englishman, Indian Field, Transactions of Linnaean and Zoological Societies, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Journal of Bombay Nat. History Society, Indian Forest Bulletins, Country Life, etc. Address: Hollycott, Lasswade, Midlothian. Club: East India United Service.
Stedman, General Sir Edward, G.C.B., (1911), K.C.I.E., (1897); b. 1842; entered Army, 1860; transferred to India Army, 1867; served in the Hazra Campaign, 1868; Afghan War, 1878-80; Burma Expeditions, 1886-89; Command of Shan column in Chitral Relief Force, 1895; Inspector-General of Police, Burma, 1887-91; Q.M.G., India, 1892-95; Command of the 1st class district, Madras, 1895; Military Secretary,India Office, 1899-1909; Colonel of 23rd Pioneers, 1904. Address: c/o India Office, London. Club: United Service.
Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie; well known writer and Novelist; d. of late George Webster; b. at Harrow, but brought up in Forfarshire; an omniverous reader; adopted Art as her profession at the suggestion of Sir Noel Paton; m. Mr. Steel, a Bengal Civilian, and came out to India, 1867; deeply interested in the Native Indian Life; began to urge educational reforms on the attention of the Government of India; worked earnestly in the cause of education and was thanked by Government on no fewer than six different occasions for her labours in the field of education; became Inspectress of Government and Aided Schools in the Punjab; for some years a Member of the Educational Committee; did much in conjunction with Mr. Lockwood Kipling to foster Indian Arts and Crafts, Publications: “Wide-
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