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 . It now comprises several villages in Partabgarh and Rae Bareli. Address: Pariawan, Kunda Tahsil, Partabgarh District, U.P.  Ahmed Khan, Najjor Khan: Khan Sahib; late Head Clerk, Ordinance Dept., Aden; born, 1860; educated at Aden; father migrated to Aden from Ranpur in 1842; worked in the Al-Diraiga Field Force; owns property in Aden. Title conferred, 1911. Address: Aden.  Ahmed Thambi Marcayar, A. K. G.; the Hon’ble Mr. Elected non official Member, Legislative Council, Madras; General Merchant and Cattle Agent for the Straits Settlement Federated Malay States, Sumatra. Manilla and Burma; Dubash, B.I.S.N. Co. Ltd.., and Madura Co., Ltd.. Telegraphic Address: “Cattle” Negapatam, Tanjore District, Madras Presidency.  Ahsan Akhtar Bakht, Mirza Bahadur; belongs to the ex-royal family of Delhi; Political pensioner; owns considerable landed property. Address: Shiwala, Benares.  Ahsan-ud-Din Ahmad, Syed, C.S. Collector & Magistrate of Bankura; born, 1859; educated at the Calcutta Madrassa and Doveton College, Calcutta; Balliol College, Oxford: entered service in 1882 and is the first Mahommedan in India to be appointed as Sessions Judge; was also Commissioner of Factories, Bengal; presented to H.M. the late Empress Victoria at a Royal Levee, 1880. Address: "Hill House", Bankura, Bengal.  Aitken, Colonel William, born, 1840; son of James Aitken of Falkirk, N.B. Educated at Edinburgh Academy and Heidelberg; entered the Royal Artillery, 1867; Captain, 1878; in Afghan War, 1878-80: Muhsud Waziri expedition, 1881; Major, 1888; Burma expedition, 1885-87; Brevet Lt. Colonel in the Chitral Relief Force, 1895; C.B.; Brevet Colonel, 1897; served with the Malakand field force, and in the Mohmand and Buner expeditions, 1897-8; commanded the Mountain Artillery, Rawalpindi, Punjab, till 1899; A.D.C. to His Majesty and Colonel on the staff, commanding R.A., Scottish District, 1899-1903; retired, 1903. Recreation: shooting and golfing. Address: InnergillieInnergellie [sic], Ansthruther, Fife.  Akbar, Bakhat, Mirza; born, 1866; educated at the Queen’s College, Benares; belongs to ex-Royal family of Delhi and is the 5th in descent from Prince Jawan Bakht, also known as Mirza Jahand Shah, the eldest son and heir-apparent to Emperor Shah Alam of Delhi; a Durbarri exempted from the operations of the Arms Act; Honorary Magistrate; Chairman of the Muslim League, Benares; Vice Chairman of the Girl’s School and Parchae Karigaran of Benares; married a daughter of the late Prince Mohammad Wabaj-ud-din Shah, of the House of Tippu Sultan of Mysore, and brother to Prince Mahommad Bakhtiyar Shah, C.I.E.. Address: Shiwala, Benares.  Alcock, Lt. Col. Alfred William, C.I.E., M.B., LL.D., F.R.S.; born, 1859; educated at Mill Hill, Blackheath, Westminster, and Aberdeen University; M.B.; Assistant Professor of Zoology, Aberdeen University, 1883-85; joined the Indian Medical Service. 1885; served in the Punjab Frontier force; Surgeon Naturalist to the Marine Survey of India on board the<section end="Alcock, Lt. Col. Alfred William"/> 7