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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . Price, Sir John Frederick, C.S.I. (1893), K.C.S.I. (1898), T.C.S. (retired); e.s. of late John Price; g.s. of late Sir Rose Price of Trengwainton; first Baronet; b. 1839; educ: Melbourne; joined I.C.S. in Madras, 1862; served in the lower grades in various places; became Chief Secretary to Government, 1888; Member, Legislative Council, Madras; retired, 1897. Publications: The Private Diary of Anantharanga Pillai (translated from Tamil). Address: Trengwainton, Exmouth, S. Devon.  Prideaux, Col. William Francis, C.S.I. (1895); b. 1840; s. of F W. Prideaux of the India Office, London; educ: at Aldenham; served in India Office, 1859; joined the Bombay Army, 1860, and Staff Corps, 1865; served with Mr. Rassam’s Mission to King Theodore of Abyssinia, 1864; imprisoned at Magdala from July 1866 to April 1868; employed under the Foreign Office in India; acting Consul-General at Zanzibar, 1873-75; in the Persian Gulf, 1876-77; Resident in Jaipur, Udaipur and Kashmir; became Colonel, 1890. Publications: the Lay of the Himyarites; many papers on Archaeology and Numismatics besides notes for a Biography of Edward Fitzgerald; a Biography of R. L. Stevenson.  Priestley, Neville George, Indian P.W.D., (retired); joined service as Assistant Superintendent, State Railways, 1879; became District Traffic Superintendent, 1884; services lent to B.B. and C.I. Railway Co.; also to E.B. Railway Co.; Agent, S.I.R. Co., 1906; retired, 1911; Director of S.I.Ry. Co., London, since 1911; came out to India for the opening of the Indo-Ceylon Railway, and welcomed Their Excellencies the Governors of Madras and Ceylon, on behalf of the Directors, 1914. Address: c/o India Office, London.  Primrose, Sir Henry William, C.S.I. (1885), C.B. (1895), K.C.B. (1889), I.S.O. (1904); s. of B.S. Primrose; b. 1846; educ: at Glenalmond and Balliol College, Oxford; joined service in the Treasury, 1869; Private Secretary to Viceroy of India, late Lord Ripon, 1880-84; Private Secretary to late Mr. Gladstone, 1866; Chairman, Board of Customs, 1895-99; Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue, 1899-07; Chairman, Pacific Cable Board, 1908; Delegate, Sugar Bounty Conference, Brussels, 1901. Address: 44, Ennismore Gardens, S.W. Club: Brooks.  Prinsep, Sir Henry Thoby, Kt., (1896); K.C.I.E. (1894), Judge, High Court, Calcutta; s. of late H. IT [sic]. Prinsep; b. 1836; educ: Harrow, and Haileybury College; joined I.C.S. in Bengal, 1855; served in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; Judicial Commissioner, Mysore, 1876; Judge, High Court, Calcutta, 1877, Additional Member, Imperial Legislative Council, 1897-98; retired, 1904. Address: 31, Hyde Park Gardens, S.W. Club: East India United Service.  Pritchard, L. E., Accountant General, Bengal; joined service as Probationer, 1883; became Comptroller, Hyderabad, 1891; services lent to the State of Jammu and Kashmir where he 333