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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . W.C. Church House, Westminster, W.C.; Cruden House, Bickenham, Kent. Club: Authors’.  Skrine, Francis Henry, I.C.S.; s. of Clarmont Skrine, Captain of the 47th Regiment; b. 1847; educ: Blackheath School; passed the open competition and entered service in Bengal, 1868; on special duty in the Bihar and Madras famines, 1874-77; Superintendent Central Jail, Salem, 1877; thanked by Government for his system of constructing embankments in the Nadia District, 1876; on Famine duty, 1881; on special duty, for excavating a drainage canal at Rangpur, 1890; on Cholera duty, 1891; on special duty for construction of Water works at Arrah, 1894; Collector of Customs, Calcutta, 1895; Commissioner, Chittagong division, 1896; retired, 1897; toured in Central Asia, the Near East, Russia and Finland; Member of the Council of the Cremation Society of England. Publications: Laborious days, Calcutta, 1892; An Indian Journalist, 1895; The Heart of Asia (with Profes sor E. D. Ross, 1899; the life of Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I. (1901); the expansion of Russia, Cambridge Historical series, 1903; Fontinoy and Great Britain in the war of the Austrian Succession, 1906; Bahism, the religion of Brotherhood, 1913. Recreation: French Literature. Address; 147, Victoria Street, S.W. Clubs: Garrick, Authors’, Polyglot.  Slacke, Francis Alexander, B.A., C.S.I. (1908); s. of T. SlakeSlack [sic]; b. 1853; educ: Blundell’s School, Tiverton; Taunton College School; University College School, Oxon; St. John’s College, Cambridge; B.A., 1875; entered I.C.S., 1874; Magistrate and Collector, 1892; Secretary, Board of Revenue, 1896; Secretary to Government of Bengal (Revenue and General Department), 1900; Commissioner of Chota Nagpur, 1903; Member, Board of Revenue, 1906; Offg. Lt.-Governor, 1906; Vice-President, Bengal Legislative Council, 1910; Senior Member and Vice-President, Executive Council, Bengal, 1911. Address: Calcutta, Bengal.  Sladen, Major-General Sir John Ramsay, K.C.B. (1907), Indian Army, (retd.); b. 1843: s. of General Sir Marcus Sladen; educ: at Woolwich; entered the Royal Artillery, 1861; served in Bazaar Valley Expedition, 1878; Afghan Campaign, 1879-80; Commanded a battery at the battles of Maiwand, and Khandahar; Transvaal Campaign, 1881-82; Military Attache at Rome, 1887-95; in Abyssinia with Italian troops; A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, 1890-99; Commanded R.A. in N.E. District; Commanded British troops in Egypt since 1903; Gentlemen-Usher to late Emperor Edward VII, 1905-10; and to Emperor George V, from 1910. Address: 8, LoundesLowndes [sic] Street, S.W. Club: United Service.  Slater, John Sanders Bar-at-Law. Administrator-General, Bombay; b. in London, 1859; s. of Roberts Slater; educ: at the Royal Naval School, New Cross; took his degree from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1881; called to the Bar, 1882; came out to India, 1884; settled himself in Bombay, 1887; 402