Page:The Indian Biographical Dictionary.djvu/436

INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . . 1897-98; Mohamond Waziri Operations, 1901-03; Tibet Mission, 1903-04; D.A.A.G., 2nd division, N. Army, India, 1908; General Staff Officer, 1913. Address: Quetta. Club: Queens and Princes.  Sheppard, Captain Thomas Dawson Less, M.V.O. (1906); s. of Colonel Thomas Dawson Sheppard of ‘Grange’, Isle of Wight; b. 1868; entered R.N. 1879; served on “H.M.S. Renown” during the Indian tour of H.M. Emperor George V and Empress Mary as Prince and Princess of Wales, 1905-06. Address: Elm Cottage, Shiplake-on-Thames.  Sheppard, Hon’ble William Didsbury, C.I.E. (1910) I.C.S., Commissioner, Southern Division, Bombay, since 1911; M.L.C., Bombay, since 1913; 2nd s. of late John Edward Sheppard of Grasendale; educ: Hereford Cathedral School and New College, Oxford; joined service, 1884; First Assistant Collector, Bombay, 1886; served in Canara, Belgaum, Dharwar and Poona; became Political Agent of Berar, 1899-1900; and again from 1904-05; won a first class K-I-H Medal, 1900; Municipal Commissioner, Bombay, 1901-02; and again from 1905-10; m. Margaret Kinloch, o.d. of late Colonel George Forbes, 1904. Address: Bombay. Club: East India United Service.  Shereahmed Khan Sardar, C.I.E., Punjab; claims the same descent as the Amir of Afghanistan; b. at Kabul, 1857; received a course of training in Arabic, Mathematics, Surveying, and learnt English privately; taken on the civil political staff and was made Military Assistant Governor of Kabul; made Assistant Political Officer and awarded a medal for services in the Afghan War, 1880; appointed to the Punjab Provincial Civil Service; Political Attache on the Russo-Afghan Frontier; granted an annual pension of 1,000 rupees for life. Address: Attock, Punjab.  Sher Ali, Khan Bahadur, (1908, retired Deputy Superintendent of Police; b. 1846; joined the Police when it was first organised 1862; became Inspector; the first to be made Deputy Superintendent after the creation of that grade; Special duty in connection with operations against the notorious outlaw, Tantia Bhil; awarded the King’s Police medal, 1910. Address: Bhandara, C.P., India.  Shermahamadpuram, Zamindar of; Sri A. V. Jaga Rao Garu, F.R.A.S., F.M.U., etc.; comes of the Godai family of Vizaga patam; s. of late Rai Bahadur Narasinga Rao Garu and Achayamma Garu (after whom the present Mrs. A. V. N. College at Vizagapatam is named); b.1886; educ: at the London Mission School, Vizagapatam; succeeded to the estate, 1898; Vice-Chairman, Mrs. A.V.N. College, Vizagapatam; maintains a Meteorological Observatory, founded by his ancestor, 1841; opened a Seismological Observatory; Fellow, Royal Colonial Institute and Society of Arts, 1900; Member. International Association of Botanists; visited London, Paris, Switzerland, 396