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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. Selected to give evidence before the Indian University Commission, 1902. Retired, 1906. Address: c/o India Office, London.  Biles, John Harvard, LL.D., D.Sc; Vice-President, Institution of Naval Architects; M. Inst.C.E., M.Inst. Mech.E., M.Soc.Nav.Arch. U.S.A.: Hon. Memb. Japanese Society of Naval Architects: Order of Osmanieh, 3rd class. In Constructive Department, Admiralty, afterwards Naval Architect to Clyde Shipbuilding Yard; Professor of Naval Architecture, Glasgow University, since 1891; has served on various Admiralty and Board of Trade Committees; is Consulting Naval Architect to H.M. India Office and to the Commonwealth Government of Australia; Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights; has visited India, Australia. United States of America, Canada, Japan, and China, and nearly all European countries; b. Portsmouth, 6 Jan. 1854; m. Emma Jane, of late Richard Hoskyn Lloyd of Pembroke, 1876; one s. two d. Educ.: Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering; Royal Naval College GreenwhichGreenwich [sic]. Publications: The Marine Steam Turbine; Design and Construction of Ships; many papers on Professional Subjects in Transactions of learned Societies. Address: Broadway Chambers, Westminster, S.W.; 175 West George Street and 10 University Gardens, Glasgow. Clubs: National; University, New Glasgow; Royal Northern Yacht.  Bilgrami, Syed Ali, Shams-ul-Ulema, M.A.(Cantab), L.L.B., L.H. (Calcutta), B.L. (Calcutta) son of Syed Zainuddin Husain Khan Bahadur, of the Bengal Provincial Service, a member of the well known family of the Sayyids of Bilgram, who emigrated to India from Wasit in Mesopotamia; born, 1853; educated at Canning College, Lucknow, Patna College, Bankipur, and Thomson Civil Engineering College, Roorki; visited Europe and England in the suite of Sir Salar Jang I, the famous Prime Minister of Haideraljad, 1876; Joined the Royal School of Mines, passed the Examination for the Associateship and obtained the Murchison Medal in Geology; Returned to India, 1879; entered the service of the Nizam, 1879; was Secretary in the Departments of Public Works, Railways and Mines for nearly ten years; retired in 1901 to settle in England; Examiner in Sanskrit to the University of Madras from 1890-2; received the title of Shams-ul-ulema for Arabic learning, 1891: Gold Medallist, in law, Calcutta University; was appointed Lecturer in Marathi to the University of Cambridge, 1902. Publications: Civilization of the Arabs, translated from the French, of Dr. Gustav Le Bon; Manual of Medical Jurisprudence; Monograph on the Book of Kalila and Dimna; Notes on the Educational Value of Persian as compared with Sanskrit; A Guide to the Cave Temples of Ellora; The Geology and Economic Minerals of Hyderabad, etc; appointed by the India Office to catalogue the collections of Arabic and Persian M.S.S., known as the Delhi M.S.S., 1902. Recreation:'Walking, cycling and tennis. Address: Khairatabad, Hyderabad, Deccan, India. Club: United Service, Secunderabad.  Bilgrami, Syed Hossain, Nawab, Imadul Mulk Bahadur; C.S.I.; b. Gya, 1844; s. of Syed Zainuddin Hossain Khan Bahadur of the Uncovenanted Civil Service, 49