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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Stuart.

(1880) by Mr. A. F. Cox, C.S.I. Address: “The Grange”, Adyar, Madras; Ootacamund. Club: East India United Service.

Stuart, John, Managing Proprietor, “Rangoon Gazette”; b. Bombay, 1847; s. of John Stuart, formerly of the Bank of Bombay, educ: Bath, Edinburgh; Melbourne; was for a year on a Sheep station in Australia; returned to Scotland; attended the Edinburgh University for one session only; received business training in the Commercial Bank of Scotland, Glasgow, and in an East India Merchant’s Office, London; proceeded to Rangoon and joined business in a firm, 1870; deputed by the merchants of Rangoon to Bhamo on the Chinese Frontier to test the possibility of increasing trade with Western China, 1870; Secretary, Burma Chamber of Commerce, 1892-93; joined the “Rangoon Gazette” as leader-writer, 1883; obtained a share in business, 1890; eventually became its Managing Proprietor; represented Burma in the Imperial Press Conference, 1900. Publications: Burma through the Centuries; and many articles in Cyclopaedia of India, etc. Address: Ivy Bank, Liberton, Midlothian.

Stuart, Hon’ble Louis, I.C.S.; Second Additional Judicial Commissioner, Oudh, since 1912; b. 1870; s. of Doctor Kenneth Bruce Stuart; educ: Charterhouse, and Balliol College, Oxford; joined the I.C.S., 1891; District and Sessions Judge, Fizabad, 1897; acted in the same capacity in various other places; special Judge for adjustment of claims under Bundelkand; encumbered Estates Act, 1903-06; Judicial Secretary to Government; and additional Member, Legislative Council, U.P., 1910-12; m. Mary Curzon Molison, d. of Doctor Robert Smith, of Sedgefield, Durham, 1896. Recreations: Golf and Boating. Address: Lucknow, U.P. Club: East India United Service.

Stubbs, Hon’ble Reginald Edward, C.M.G. (1914); F.Z.S.; Colonial Secretary, Ceylon, since 1913; Member, Executive Council, Ceylon; s. of late Rev. William Stubbs, D.D., Bishop of Oxford; b. 1876; educ: Radley and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Exhibitioner, 1st class Classical Moderations, 1897 1st Litt. Hum., 1899; B.A., 1899 Clerk, Colonial Office, 1900-10 on special mission to Malay Peninsula and Hong-Kong, 1910-11; Officiating Governor of Ceylon, 1913. Address: Colombo, Ceylon.

Sturge, P. H. M.A., Principal and Professor of History, Nizam College, Hyderabad (Deccan); educ: Cambridge University; Joined Hyderabad Educational Service as Professor of History; Examiner for many years to Madras University in History; Principal, Nizam College, since 1910; Member, Educational Board, Hyderabad. Address: Nizam College, Hyderabad (Deccan).

Sturrock, John, C.I.E. (1900), I.C.S. (Retired); formerly first Member,. Board of Revenue, Madras; s. of John Sturrock of Dundee; b. 1845; educ: Dundee High School; entered service, 1864; served in the usual administrative grades of the service; well remembered as Collector of South

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