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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . SturtStuart [sic] Bruce, Kildrummy; educ; GrammerGrammar [sic] School, Old Aberdeen; joined service as Assistant to Professor of Botany, University of Aberdeen, 1894-96; transferred to Indian Medical Service, 1897; Curator of the Herbarium, Calcutta Botanic Gardens, 1898; Superintendent, Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 1906; is now Director of Botanical Survey, India, Publications: various technical papers on botanical subjects. Recreation: motoring. Address: Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, India. Club: Bengal United Service.  Gait, Edward Albert, C.I.E., (1907), I.C.S., Census Commissioner for India; s. of late John James Gait; b. 1863; educ; University College, London; entered service, 1882; acted in various places and in various capacities, and became Superintendent of Census Operations, Assam, 1892; Deputy Commissioner, 1892; Director, Land Records and Agriculture, 1893; Secretary, 1896; Collector and Magistrate, 1897; Provincial Supttd of Census, Bengal, 1900; Census Commissioner for India, 1902; Deputy Commissioner, 1904; Financial Secretary to Govt, of Bengal, and Member of Council of Liet.-Governor, 1905; Commissioner, Chota Nagpur, 1906; Chief Secretary to Government, Bengal, 1907; Census Commissioner for India, 1909; Address: Yates Place, Simla, India; Club: East India Unted Service.  GaitskullGaitskell [sic], A.; I.C.S, Commissioner, Tennaserim Division; appointed 1918. educ; at Cheltenham and New College, Oxford; appointed to Burma service, 1889; Director, Land Records and Agriculture, 1899; Address, Tennaserim, Burma.  Gajjar, T. M. A., B.Sc. C.F.C.S., &c., b. at Surat, 1862; first class honours in Science; first came to public notice by successfully removing pitch from the Victoria statue at Bombay, and won a prize of Rs. 2000, 1897; joined Baroda service and started Kalabhavan (Technical school) there, on the Zurich Charlottenburg model; put the dyeing industry in India on a scientific basis; supplied trained students for working dyeing factories in Bombay and Madura; has experimented largely in oils and has been instrumental in opening oil mills at Ahmedabad, Broach, Surat, and other places; joined Wilson College, Bombay, as Professor of Chemistry; is a pioneer of Chemical and Technical industries in Western India; Address: Bombay, India.  Gajja Mal, Rai Sahib, I.S.O. (1910) Headclerk and Superintendent, Khyber Agency; b, 1857; educ; Church Mission School, Peshawar; belongs to a Kapur Khatri family of Peshawar; joined Khyber Agency as Head clerk, 1880; accompanied the Khyber Force in the 2nd Afghan Campaign; active service in Tirrah Expedition, 1897-1898; present at Khyber during the disturbance of 1908; for the Tirrah Expedition received a pension of ET.50 per mensum, two clasps, a khilat and a medal; Rai Saheb, 1910; owns property in Peshawar city. Address: Peshawar, India.  Galbraith, A. N., I.C.S., Private Secretary to H.E. the Governor of Ceylon; Address: Government House, Colombo, Ceylon.  Galletti di Cadilhac, Arthur Mario Agricola Collier, I.C.S., Under Secretary to Government, Madras; 152