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 1847; son of Rev. Edward Baines Educ.: Rugby and Trin. Coll. Cantab; Joined I.C.S. in Bombay, 1870-69; Census Commissioner for India, 1889-93; employed at India Office and as Secretary to Royal Commission on Opium, 1894-95; retired, 1895. Decorated for Census Administration. Publications: Official Reports on Provincial Administration on Indian Census Operations, 1881-91; Indian Progress (Parliamentary), 1894; many papers, ethnographic and statistial, for London Societies. Address: Home Close, Kidington, Oxon. Clubs: Reform, United Empire, and Liberal Union.  Baird, Sir David, 3rd Bart, of Newbyth. 1809: born, 1832; Educ, Rugby; Entered Army, 1850; served Kaffir War, 1851-52; Crimea, 1824; Indian Mutiny, Maj. 1858. Owns about 3,000 acres; Heir: s. David, b. 1865, Captain 42nd Royal Highlanders. Address: Newbyth, Prestonkirk, N.B.; 48 Berkeley Square, W. Clubs; Army and Navy, White’s.  Bajpal Chandrabal; Talukdar of Kandah; educated at Uneo High School and succeeded to his estates, 1909; belongs to a brahmin family of Oudh; Is a Durbari and an enlightened and popular land-holder. Address: Kardaha, Unao District, United Provinces:  Baker, Sir Edward Norman, K.C.S.I. 1908, C.S.I. 1900; Born, 1857: son of late Arthur Baker; I.C.S., (Retd.) formerly Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal educated at Christ's College, Finchley; joined Bengal Civil Service, 1878; Deputy Commissioner, and then Under-Secretary to Government of Bengal, and to Government of India, Finance Department, 1885; Deputy-Secretary,1892-5; Magistrate and Collector of Customs, Calcutta; Secretary 1902-5; Financial Secretary to the Government of Bengal and Member of Bengal Legislative Council, 1898-1902; Financial Member of the Supreme Council,1905; Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 1908-1911. East India United Service and Reform Clubs.  Baker, J. L., Deputy Conservator of Forests, Andaman Islands. Address: Port Blair.  Bala Bux, Khawas, Rai Bahadur, Minister of His Highness the Maharaja of Jaipur; born, 1860; entered service of the State 1878; went to England for King Edward’s Coronation, 1902. Address: Jaipur, Rajputna.  Baldeo Singh, L.M.S., Rai Bahadur; born, 1859; educated at the Fyzabad High School and Lahore Medical College; belongs to a Rajput family whose ancestors were in the service of Emperor Akbar and had been granted territory near Amethi; his uncles are known to have been on the side of the British in the Mutiny of 1857; father was in the service of Maharaja Sir Man Singh; owns a Zemindari in the District of Sultanpur: Honorary Asstistant Surgeon to His Excellency the Viceroy. Address: Ballia, Bareilly, U.P.  Balakrishna Ayyar, T. S. Rao Bahadur; Government Pleader, Coimbatore: born, 1862; Member, Madras Legislative Council, 1909-<section end="Balakrishna Ayyar, T. S."/> 20