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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . , 1900-01; Political Agent, Phulkian States and Bhawalpur Punjab, 1901-05; Private Secretary to Lord Minto (Viceroy of India), 1905; Political A.D.C. to the Secretary of State for India, since 1910. Address: 35, Ovington Square, S.W. Club: Bath.  Smith, Vincent Arthur, M.A., I.C.S. (Retd.) b. 1848; s. of Aquilla Smith, M.D. of Dublin; educ; at Trinity College, Dublin; Fellow of the Allahabad University; arrived in India, 1871; served in N.W.P. and Oudh; worked in Settlement and other departments until he became Magistrate-Collector, 1889; District Judge, 1895; Chief Secretary, 1898; Commissioner, 1898; retired, 1900; Reader in Indian History and Hindustani in the University of Dublin, 1902-03. Publications: Settlement Officer’s Manual for the N.W.P.; General Index to Cunningham’s Archaeological Survey Reports; The Remains near Kassia; the Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura; Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India; the Early History of India; Catalogue of non-Mahommedan coins in the Indian Museum; Coinage of Early Gupta Dynasty; Graeco-Roman influence on the Civilisation of Ancient India; History and Conquest of Samudragupta; numerous papers on history, antiquities, etc. in the Calcutta Review, Quarterly Review, J.R.A.S., and the Indian Antiquary. Edited Sleeman’s “Rambles and Recollections”. Address: Oxford.  Smyth, Captain C. A. Watson, Private Secretary to H.H. the Lt.-Governor of U.P.; b. 1880; joined the Military, 1901; transferred to Indian Army, 1904; promoted to present rank, 1912. Address: Government House, Allahabad, U.P.  Smyth, Lt.-Col John, M.D., I.M.S., P.M.O., Burma (Retd.); at one time Senior Surgeon and Sanitary Commissioner, Mysore; b. Monaghan, Ireland, 1857; educ: Queen’s College, Belfast and Galway, and the University College, London; also Pasteur Institute, Paris; joined service at Netley, 1881; joined the General Hospital, Madras, 1882; on Military duty for voyage with troops between Madras and Rangoon; proceeded with the troops to Suez and returned to Bombay; again proceeded with troops to SeccunderabadSecunderabad [sic], 1882; Resident Surgeon, Madras General Hospital, and Professor of Pathology; Madras Medical College, 1883; Fort Surgeon and Medical Inspector of Seamen at Madras and Professor of Anatomy, Madras Medical College, 1884; on Field service in Egypt with F. Com pany, Queen’s Own Sappers and Miners, (medal with two clasps and the Khedival Star) 1885; returned to Madras and posted as Assistant Physician, General Hospital, and Professor of Hygiene, Medical College, transferred to Vizagapatam; 1886; reverted to Madras, 1887; Superintendent, Government Lying-in Hospital.and Professor of Midwifery, 1892; became Surgeon-Major, 1893; services lent to Mysore Government; Medical Officer in charge of H.H. the Maharaja and the Palace, 1899; Senior Surgeon and Sanitary Commissioner and Inspector-General of Prisons, Mysore, 1904: deputed to study Applied Sanitation in Japan, 1908;  406