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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . and Burma Campaigns and se cured medals and the special thanks of the Indian Government for his splendid services; owns property near Dublin. Publications: ‘Conversion of Wood by Machinery’, ‘Pocket Book of Engineering Formulae’, ‘Metrical Tables’, ‘Decimal Coinage’, ‘Light Railways’, ‘Gauge of Railways in India’, ‘Masonry Dams’, ‘Reason and instinct in arts’, etc. Recreations: Tennis and Cycling. Address: Manor House, Bezley, Kent. Club: St. Stephen’s, Royal Societies.  Molony, John Chartres, I.C.S., President, Corporation of Madras; educ: University of Dublin; joined service as Assistant Collector, 1901; on special duty as Assistant Political Agent, Banganapalli, 1908; Superintendent, Census Operations, Madras, 1910; Collector and Magistrate, 1912; President, Madras Corporation, 1914, Publications: Census Report of Madras, 1910. Address: Madras, India.  Monteith, Sir James, M.A., C.S.I., (1902), K.C.S.I., (1903), Chief Secretary to Government of Bombay, (retired); s. of late Thomas Monteith of Guileburn, Lockerbie; b. 1847; educ: Royal Academical Institution, and Queen’s College, Belfast; passed B.A. with 2nd class Honors in classics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Political Economy; passed M.A., with 2nd class honors; joined I.C S., 1870; m. Amelia, 2nd d. of late Thomas Hunter of Belfast, 1872; gained administrative experience in the Collectorates of Dharwar and Kanara; was on special duty in connection with land assessment in Kanara; acted in various grades in the judicial, political, educational and other branches of the service; Private Secretary to Lord Reay, Governor of Bombay, for three years; Officiating Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay, 1895; confirmed, 1897; Additional Member, Legislative Council, Bombay; Officiating Governor of Bombay for a short period, 1903. Recreations; Cycling and Golf. Address: The ChantoyChantry [sic], Aveton Giffard, Devon. Club: East India United Service.  Moore, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry, C.I.E., (1878); K.C.B., (1897), Indian Army, (retired); b. 1829; joined the Indian Army in Bombay, 1850; served in Persia, 1857 (medal with clasp); served in Indian Mutiny, 1858 (despatches, medal); Abyssinia, 1867-68 (despatches, medal, Brevet-Major); Lushai Expedition, 1871-72 (despatches, clasp, Brevet-Colonel); Afghanistan, 1878-79 (despatches, medal, C.B.); served in Egypt, 1882 (medal with clasp, bronze star, 3rd class Osmanich). Address: Birksey Bow, Crook, Near Kendal. Clubs: United Service; Royal St. George, Yacht.  Morison, Sir Theodore, M.C., K.C.I.E., (1910), Member, India Council, London; s. of James Cotter Morison; b. 1863; educ: West minster and Trinity College, Cambridge; appointed Tutor to H.H. the Maharaja of Chatrapur and Chharkari, 1855; joined the staft of the M.A.O. College, Aligarh, 1889; Principal of the College, 1889-1905; Additional Member, Imperial Legislative Council, 1903-1904; President, Muhammadan Educational Conference, 1904; retired, 1905; 283