INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Beer Bikeam Singh Bahadur.
Service Sappers and Honorary A.D.C. to the Viceroy; represented Imperial Service Troops in the Coronation of Emperor Edward VII, and at Stafi College, Camberly, 1907-9; Address: Nahan, Sirmoor State, Punjab. Sirmoor Club.
Begbie, Major-General Elphinstone Waters, C.B. 1896: D.S.O. 1891; b. Cheltenham, 1842; 5th s. of late Major-General P. J. Begbie, Madras Artillery; Educ, Crewkerne Grammar School, and at Bonn and, Canstatt, Germany: Ensign, Madras Infantry, 1859; Lieutenant 1861; Captain, 1871: Major, 1879; Lieut.Colonel, 1885: Colonel 1889: Major-General, 1898; served in Abyssinian campaign, 1867-68 (despatches, medal): served in Duffla expedition, 1874-75 (despatches): served in third Burmese War, 1885-86 (despatches, medal): admitted to Good Service Pension, 1897; attached to Queen’s Own Madras Sappers and Miners; 1871-88; Instructor in Army Signalling for Madras Presidency, 1872-88; Commandant, Bangalore Rifle Volunteers, 1888-99; Assistant-Adjutant General, District Staff, 1910-91; A.A.G. Headquarters, Madras Army, 1891; D.A.G. Madras Army, 1891-94: officiating A. G. Madras Army, 1894-95: D.A.G., Madras Command, with rank of Brig.-Gen., 1887; transferred Unemployed Supernumerary List, 1902. Address: c/o London County and Westminster Bank, West Brighton.
Behari Lal Bhargawa, Rao Bahadur (1896); belongs to a respectable Bhargava Brahmin family; born, 1850; S. of Pandit Chandra Bhan; Banker, Zemindar, and Government Treasurer of Jubbulpur, Seoniand Mandla: inaugurated the Bhargava Commercial Bank, of which he is a Life Managing Director; established relief works at his own expense and helped the Government in various other ways during the famine, for which a special Sanad was granted to him; greatly interested in the cause of female education. Address: Jubbulpur, U.P.
Bell, E. A. S.; F.C.H., A.M.I.C.E., Engineer-in-chief, Mysore Railway Construction Department and Ex-Officio Secretary, Railway Department, Consulting Engineer to the Government of Mysore, for Railways (on leave). Address: Bangalore, Mysore Province.
Bell, G. J. H., Inspector General of Prisons, Burma; appointed, 1912. Address: Rangoon .
Bell, Nicholas D Beatson; C.I.E. Member of Council, Bengal; educated, Edinburgh Acad, and Balilol Coll, Oxford; joined service, 1886; Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector, 1895; Magistrate and Collector, 1896; to 1898: Offg. Director, Land Records and Agriculture, Bengal, 1905-06; Commissioner of Land Revenue, Director of Land Records and Agri. and Member, Legislative Council, Bengal 1913 holds a K.I.H. Medal; C.I.E. 1906; Member, Executive Council, 1914. Address: Calcutta.
Bell, William, C.I.E. 1904; M.A. Edin. 1885; Director of Public, Instruction Punjab; b. 1860. Educ. Moray House Training College, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University (medallist, honours): Vans Dunlop Scholar, Edinburgh, 1882-85: Joined Indian Educational Service, 1885, as Principal Central Training College, Lahore
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