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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . Gardens, Folkestone. Club: Junior United Service.  Thurston, Edgar, L.R.C.P., L.S.A., F.R.C.S., C.M.B.S., C.I.E. (1909); Superintendent, Government Museum and Principal Librarian, Connemara Library, Madras (Retired); b. 1855; educ: Eton and King’s College, London (Medical School); won K-I-H gold medal, 1902; Superintendent, Ethnographic Survey of the Madras Presidency, 1902-09. Publications: Castes and Tribes of Southern India; Ethnographic Notes in Southern India; Omens and Superstitions of Southern India; Geography of Madras; Several bulletins on Ethnographic topics and numismatics. Address: Cumberland Lodge, Kew. Club: Oriental.  Tickell, Hon’ble Richard Hugh, C.I.E., (1914); M.I.C.E.; Chief Engineer, C.P., since 1913: educ; R.I.E. College; joined service, 1881; Executive Engineer, 1894; served in Kotah State, 1894-1902; on Irrigation Works in Punjab and N.W.P.; constructed Upper Swat Canal in N.W.P.; Superintending Engineer, 1906. Address: Nagpur, C.P. Club: E.I. United Service.  Tilak, Bal Gangathar, B.A., LL.B., Lawyer, Sanskrit Scholar and Publicist, Poona; s. of late Pandit Gangadhar Ranichendra Tilak; b. Ratnagiri, 1S56; educ: Deccan College, Poona; B.A. (honours), 1876; LL.B., 1879; started the Poona New English School in conjunction with Mr. Agarkar and with the helphelp of [sic] Mr. Vishnu Krishna Chiplunker, 1800; started the “Mahratta” and the “Kesari” 1881; founded the Deccan Educational Society, Poona, in conjunction with Mr Namjoshi; founded the Ferguson College, 1885; actively connected with it till 1890; in charge of a Law class to equip young men for Law examination; Secretary, Deccan Standing Congress Committee for some years; organised the first five sessions of the Bombay Provincial Conference; Fellow, Bombay University; twice elected to Bombay Legislative Council; Member, Bombay Corporation for some years; established Cheap grain shops in the famine of 1896; organised a Hospital and recommended to the people the salutary measures of Government for stamping out the disease; convicted on a charge of sedition and sentenced to undergo 18 months imprisonment, 1897; released through the intercession of late Professor Max Müller and other Oriental scholars; again convicted on a similar charge and sentenced to 6 years transportation and a fine of Rs. 1,000, 1908; sentence commuted to simple imprisonment; interned at Mandalay; released and returned to Poona, 1914. Publications: “The Orion, or researches into the Antiquities of the Vedas”, etc. Address: Poona, Bombay Presidency.  Timmins, Edmund Henry, Editor of “The Empire”, Calcutta; s. of George Henry Timmins; b. at Birmingham, 1882; educ; St. Aloysius School, Highgate, London; joined the staff of the “Birmingham Weekly Mercury” as Sub-Editor, 1899; Reporter, “Catholic Herald” of Manchester, 1903; Reporter, “Midland Evening News”, Wolverhampton, 1903; Sub-Editor, Exchange Telegraph Company, 1904;  436