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 1004, until the ll’l'dllllll ut the Rutlwuy Board. Mr. Priestley tilled the office in Traffic blipi-riiiteiident. l‘:. B. S. Riitlwny.

Illmltlllltlll tu llla airduuus rnilwiiv (tum-4. Mr. Priestley Iiiia. hir wine 3n tents, Liketi un iii'tiVe intern! in the Vuluntrer lllUVt‘lllt‘ltI itlltl Imlil~ the tank “I l.ii-nti-iiiiiit-t'iiliiv “1". While l'tttlt‘r'St‘creldry tit the (mvernnieiit ul lndia. he mininutid- ed the Siltihi \‘Ulttltterr‘ lur (\m \mr: during mu! :ind mug. itlitl, on his return tn Smilu :u Secretary ut the Railway Hiiiiril. lie was again .It‘kt'tl in take the riiniiiwiid l-ut wit: ubliged to reiuse UH dtt‘utllll (it pregsiurent l‘llglllt'ss.

Mr. HENRY A DUI. I’ H U S HYDI‘ZN RA’I‘TIHAN. Ii..-\.. Barris- It'f‘ill‘l‘lIVV. Legal Reineitiliranrer. I’ntiiiih, is the ruin ut the lute Sir William Rzittignti. M.l’., K.(‘.. and was born ltI Delhi in October t8ti4. Alter living Niurntml ltl Hurrnw: Iie

tle‘CCdl‘tl tu Uxtiird (Balliol). where

he took his B. A. degree in 1888, and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in the same year.

Returning to India iii 1360 he was enrolled as an Advneate at the Chief Court of the Punjab and High Court. United Provinces. In May 1000 he was appointed Ad- ditional judge. Punjab Chief Court. and in November of the same year

Legal Roinmnhranrer and Socreo ltlt‘t‘ tn the Legislative Council «it

THE CYCLOPEIHA (ill: INDIA.

tlw Putil‘nli. Iti mu: and tum. he nthcntteil a~ judge at the thief Court. and in t‘UJlK'f mus he was iippiiinted .tnd Additiunnl 'l‘ein purziry judge Of that Court.

Mr. “Hill DAVEY RENUAI.L, “35.. Was horn .ittireut Rullright, xiurdshire. iii Deretnlu-r 1372.

the yunngest sun at the Rev. Henry Renditll. He Wu: educated at Rugby (ISSOoltIl and Trinity Cul< lege. Cnmliridgc (mm-lib). almost a year of thr- Iatter period being spent at the ranching establishment oi the In te Walter Wren. He uhtnined honours in the Cambridge Classtml Tripos. and in 1895 plum! the Indian Civil Sen-tee Examinatinn. Arriving in India the following year, he spent ﬁve years as ASSIstunt Cul- lcctnr and Magistrate at Alimednlmd and (iudhm. attenvard: lit'cnmitlg Assistant judge-i Saturn. and Joint Judge. Ahmedaliad. The special duty of dralting the Famine Report tor the Bombay Presidency claimed Mr. Rendnll's services in 1003. rilti‘r the rnmplr-tinn of which he llf‘t‘ﬂlllt‘ l’tiilvr-Sr-i retitry tn the tint-- f‘IIlIllt‘ltl tll lit nihny Ill lllt' jiidii m In- ‘nrtiiient. lll-llt‘iIlIll smin min- trl ul him in take lung li~.|\‘t', nml in his n-tiirn tn iltiti' Ill April inns hv llt‘t‘u’tlt‘tl ttiiipnturilv the post oi Rt'gtbltﬂl‘ t0 the High (hurt. anilvny. during the iilisr‘nrvnl the pemiiiiwnt inriimheiit. He is nuts-

stutiuned in Italian as Jtidii'ml Assistant tn the Agent tn the (it)\'L‘l‘llt|r in the prin'tni‘v id KullllﬂWJr.

Mt. FREDl-Zklth TRAHI‘LRNE RICKARDS. Deputy Agent, (innit liidnin l’entiisnhi Railway, is thv wrund ts‘nll ut the Rev. Ruler Frziiii‘i-a Mute Richards, iiiitutinie i'iirnte (ti lliirhertnn, nenr Tutnm. ernsliire. in whirh parish the lurniet‘ was lmrii UH Junttnry Mh. W49. Some eight yours ulter- wi'irrls, the Rev. Mr. R i i‘ k .1 rd : lieraiitie Virsir Ul (iiitiatiititiiie. iii-in Fidmnntli. whither the hittiin nmv. ed, and l't’llli‘llltl'll till the death (ll the \'ii‘zir In 1374. The Rickard: family in (II Welsh extrui'tiun. tho- eiirliest extant remrd lK’lllg the Will at Henry Itii‘kzitds, alias Fr!- more, illtIi'il l4fi5. Cullllls' I’m-rage (5th «1.. pl 374) mutants under the head uf Ferniuiir l-Irirl til l-‘iiiiitrut. the tulliiwing iintire.

" 'l'hiit the name Ill the tiiinily was iiiirieiitly “Tttlt‘ Rii‘iirilx. .ilim Fermmir, appears as Well from the authorities as from the lust mil and testament iif Tltunliti Ricards, iili'ax' Formour, whase mother was the daughter and heir at the inmily nf Fertnuur, and his father. Ricards iii \Velsh extraction, by tradition in the tamily."

The family resided in Rudnur- sliirc’. the branch from which Mr. F. T. Richards is descended being derived lrnm Rribert Richards, vicar (it Llantrisaiit. 1767, whnse second son, Robert Rickards, grand hither uf the subject at this sketch. mine to India in 1785. and rose to he a member of Council in the Bombay Presidency, retiring to England in 1811.

Mr. Richards received his educn- ti'un at Exnioiith, and afterwards at Kensington Grammnr School, and Mr. Srnones' establishment for candidates tor the Indian Civil Service. He came to India in the Government T elegmph De- partment, his servir-e dating frum Niwemlivr 137”. iIIItl llt' juttil‘d the Ii.-lt. & C. I. Railwni‘ its Su‘ri-tan' tn the Agent III Anni-at thﬁti, lw- l'ﬂmt' Agent til the Wild" Midland Railway in May [84.5. and U" the iiiiiiilganmtinti n1 that lim- with the (ii-eat lntlldll l't'llttlstllit Railan was niiide Deputy Agent of the I‘ttmltlllt'tl system.