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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . Landon, Perceval, B.A., Bar.-at law, Journalist and Author; b;. 1869; s. of late Rev. Edward Henry Landon; educ: Hertford College, Oxford; called to Bar (Inner Temple), 1895; Secretary, Oxford Union Society, 1891; Special Correspondent for the Times, S.A. War, 1889-1900; joint editor of the ‘Friend’, Bloemfontein; Private Secretary to Governor of New South Wales, 1900; Special Correspondent of the ‘Daily Mail’, during Delhi Durbar, 1903; Special Correspondent of ‘The Times’, in the expedition to Lhasa, 1903-04; Special Correspondent to the Daily Telegraph during Prince of Wales’ visit to India, 1905-06; Persia, India and Nepal, 1908; Russian Turkestan, 1909; and Egypt and Soudan, 1910; is on the staff of Daily Telegraph; has travelled in several parts of the world. Publications; Heliotropes, 1903; Lhasa, 1905; Under the Sun, 1906; The story of the Indian Mutiny, 1907; Rev. Edges, 1908; The House Opposite; For the Soul of the King (translated from the French), 1909; Address: 83, Charlwood Street, S.W. Club: Beefsteak.  Landor, A. Henry SavegeSavage [sic], F.R.I., F.R.G.S., Artist, and Explorer; 2nd s. of Charles SavegeSavage [sic] Landor; b. in Florence; educ: LiccoLiceo [sic] Dante, Institute Tecnico, Florence; also in Paris; travelled extensively in the East visiting Japan, China, Corea, South Mangolia, Tibet, India, Nepal, Yezzo, the Kurile Islands, Phillippine Islands, Sulu Archipelago, Persia, Beluchistan, America, Australia, Egypt, Panama, etc.; is the first European to find both sources of the Brahmaputra and locate their exact position; set at rest the problem that no range higher than the Himalayas existed; explored the Central Mindanayo Island; is unmatched in mountaineering, having reached 23,490 feet on Mount Lumpa in Nepal, 1889; is the first to discover the “White Tribe” (mansakas); accompanied the allied troops on the march to Pekin; is the first Anglo-Saxon to enter the Forbidden City on the day of Allies’ entry; travelled from Russia to Calcutta, 190i; was cruising in the Sulu ArchippellagoesArchipelago [sic] and in the Phillippines for nearly a year, and visited many minerminor [sic] Islands; crossed Africa in its widest part travelling a distance of 8,500 miles and ending his journey at the most westerly point of that continent, 1906, Publications: Alone with the hairy Ainu, or 3,800 miles on a Pack-saddle; Corea or the land of the morning calm; In the Forbidden Land; the Gems of the East; An Explorer’s Adventures in Tibet, etc. Address; c/o GrindlyGrindlay [sic] and Co., 54, Parliament Street; Calappaino Empoliper, Vinci, Italy. Clubs: Grosvenor, Aero.  Lane, Major-General Charles Stuart, C.B., (1907), Late of the Indian Army; s. of late Richard Lane; b. 1831; educ: privately; m. Anne JosepheneJosephine [sic], d. of Rev. R. B. Boys, 1852; joined the Indian Army and served in the Indian Mutiny, 1857 (Medal with two clasps); served in Bhutan Expedition, 1863; Afghan War, 1858-79 (Despatches, Medal); retired, 1882. Address: 24, Cromwell House, Nightingale Road, South-SeaSouthsea [sic].  Lane, Colonel Clayton Turner, C.I.E (1895), J.P., Indian Army (retired); 3rd s. of late James Lane of Knockeevan,  245