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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . great friend of the Indian Progressive Movement; presided at the Indian National Congress, 1889; Chairman, British Committee of the Indian National Congress; m. Mary Blanche; d. of late Henry William Hoskyns, 1878. Publications: Papers and Schemes on Arbitration Courts, Agricultural Banks, Village Panchayets and subjects relating to the condition of the Indian people; Memoir of A. O. Hume, C.B. Address: Meredith, Gloucester; 81, Palace Chambers, Westminster, S.W. Clubs: Reform, National Liberal.  Wedderspoon, W. G., M.A., LL.B., F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S., F.C.U., Officiating Director of Public Instruction, Rangoon; educ: Edinburgh University: joined service as Junior Inspector of Schools, Rangoon: 1893; Senior Inspector, 1886; Director of Public Instruction, 1912. Address: Rangoon, Burma.  Weir, Charles James I.C.S., retired; educ: Queen’s College, Belfast; joined service as Assistant Collector and Magistrate, Madras, 1879; became Under Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, 1886; Deputy Accountant General, 1888; District and Sessions Judge, 1890; Collector and Magistrate, 1894; Secretary to Government, Local, Municipal, Educational and Legal Departments, 1899; Acting 4th Member, Board of Revenue, Madras, 1900; Additional Member, Legislative Council, Madras, 1903-05; President of the Committee to consider and report on the revised draft of the Madras Forest Code; 3rd Member, Board of Revenue, Madras, 1906; became 1st Member, Board of Revenue, Madras; retired, 1911.  Welby, T. Earle, Literary Editor and Principal Leader Writer, ‘Madras Mail’, Madras; Correspondent of the London ‘Standard’, and Contributor to the ‘Times of India’. Publications: Swinburne, A Critical Study, etc.. Address: c/o The ‘Madras Mail’, Beach, Madras, India.  Welinkar, Narayan Gunoji, M.A., LL.B., J.P., Bombay; b. at Bombay, 1867; educ: Elphinstone and Wilson Colleges, Bombay; M.A., 1889, LL.B., 1892; Assistant Professor, Wilson College, 1898-99; joined the Government Law College, Bombay, as Professor of Latin and Roman Law; Superintendent of Municipal Schools, Bombay, 1904; Fellow of the Bombay University, 1904. Address: Bombay.  Welmesley, Hon’ble Mr. Justice H., M.A., Judge, High Court, Calcutta; educ: Merton College, Oxford; joined service, 1894: served as Assistant Collector and Magistrate till 1902; District and Sessions Judge, 1906; Acting Judge, High Court, Calcutta, 1913. Address: Calcutta, India.  Wenden, Henry Charles Edward, M.Inst.C.E., C.I.E. (1903), Agent, G.I.P. Railway, (retired); s. of late Henry Wenden of Barnes, Surrey; b. 1841; entered Indian Railways, 1859; Agent, G.I.P. Railways, India, till 1906; Director of the same Railway since 1907; retired, 1906; m. Ada Henrietta Maria, d. of Major Edward Simpson, 1881. Address: Summerhill, HorselHorsell [sic], near Woking, Surrey. Club: East India United Service. 461