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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . , Delhi; joined service as Comptroller, Burma; 1890; Inspector of Local Fund Accounts, 1893; Assistant Accountant General, Bombay, 1897; Examiner of Accounts, 1898; Comptroller, Assam, 1902; Deputy Accountant-General, Bengal, 1905; Offg. Accountant-General for Railways, 1912. Publication: Mandalay and other cities of the past in Burma. Address: Delhi, India.  Scudamore, Major Walter Victor, R.E., Indian Educational Service; joined service, 1885; Assistant Engineer, Military Works De partment, 1888; Assistant Engineer, Mul Vally, 1889; Bombay, 1892; Executive Engineer, 1898; on Railway works in South Africa, 1899-1902; Principal and Professor, Civil Engineering College of Science, Poona, 1903.  Scully, Lt.-Colonel John, I.M.S. (retired); joined service, 1872; Medical Officer, Kashgarh, 1874-76; Residency Surgeon, Nepal, 1876-78; Medical Officer, Gilgit, 1878-80; Acting Deputy Assay Master, Calcutta Mint, 1882-83; Deputy Assay Master, Bombay Mint, 1882; Assay Master, Calcutta Mint, 1886; retired, 1889.  Seal, Dr. Brajendranath, M.A,. Principal, Victoria College, Cooch Bihar; 2nd s. of late Babu Mahendra Lal Seal, a distinguished Vakil of Calcutta; lost his father while yet he was a boy; passed the entrance examination with credit and obtained a scholarship; studied Philosophy, Literature, History, Philology, Jurisprudence, and all the Philosophical and Theological writings of mediaeval days; passed M.A. and studied Sanskrit; knows English, Sanskrit, Bengalee, Greek, Latin, German, French, Persian and Italian languages; Elected as the first Speaker and the Opener of the proceedings of the Universal Races Congress where he read a paper which has been acknowledged as the most perfect and thoughtful ever read before any assembly. Address: Cooch Behar, India.  Seaman Batt, Joisa, Rai Sahib (1911), Chairman, Hadagalli Union; b. 1862; educ: at Bellary; connected with the public life of the district for over 20 years; founded the Hadagalli Brahman Reading Room and the Rural Bank; rendered valuable service to the people during, times of famine, plague, etc.; Member, Hadagalli Taluk Board; Member, Bellary District Board. Address: Huvvina, Hadagalli Bellary District, Madras Presidency.  Seetharamayya, S., Advocate, Shimoga, and Member, Mysore Legislative Council. Address: Shimoga, Mysore State, India.  Seitur, Zemindar of; Sri Vadamalai Tiruvanatha Sevaga Padyan Thevar Avergal; belongs to a family of Maravars known by the name of “Menathi Mauniya Kurukula Vanangamudi Pandarathar”; s. of Sri Sundarathass Thevar; educ: first privately under Mr. Suriyanaraya Iyer, then at the Hindu High School,. Srivilliputtur, and afterwards at the Hindu College, Tinnevelly; lost his parents while young; the estate was managed during his minority by Sri Nagayasawmi Thumbuchi Nayakar, 386