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# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Obawulla Khan, Nawabzada Hafiz Muhammad Bahadur

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​Obawulla Khan, Nawabzada Hafiz Muhammad Bahadur, C.S.I. (1912), Colonel-in-Chief, Victoria Imperial Service Lancers, Bhopal, (retired); s. of the Begum of Bhopal; b. 1878; educ: Privately; has learnt Koran by heart; m. (1902); three sons and one daughter; joined the Bhopal Victoria Imperial Service Lancers, 1914; became Commander-in-chief of the Forces, 1915; A.D.C. to Viceroy, 1916; Captain in the British Army, 1908; accompanied H.H. The Begum of Bhopal to Mecca and successfully repulsed a party of Beduin Arabs who attacked the Begum and her party; travelled all over Europe and attended the Coronations of 1903 and 1911; promoted to the rank of Major, 1911; is a Trustee of the M.A.O. College, Aligarh, for which he has subscribed Rs. 60,000. Address: Jaban Numa Palace, Central India. Clubs: Central India Residency, Indore.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Nizam-ud-din Ahmad

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​Nizam-ud-din Ahmad, M.A., Khan Bahadur (1910); Inspector of Schools, Chhatisgarh; b 1871; educ: Muir Central College. Allahabad; joined service as Professor in the College affiliated to the Bombay University; Munshi to H.E. the Governor of Bombay; in charge of Muhammadan Education in the whole of the Hyderabad Assigned districts; for some time in charge of the office of the Director of Public Instruction, C.P. and Berar. Address: Raipur. C.P., India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Noel-Paton, Frederick

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​Noel-Baton, Frederick; Director General of Commercial Intelligence, Calcutta; 2nd s. of late Sir Noel Paton, LL.D.; trained as an artist; developed a keen interest in economics; furnished figure illustrations for various books; contributed articles on economics to Blackwood and other Magazines; edited Chaucer for the Canterbury Poets series; became Secretary in the Turkish Embassy; joined Sir Edgar Vincent as his Secretary and with him under took a tour in Europe, Egypt, Arabia, Asia Minor; employed to report on various financial and Industrial projects; came out to India on a mission with the Government of Bombay in connection with contraband trade on the Aden-Arabian Frontier, 1884; joined the Bombay Chamber of Commerce as Assistant to the Secretary of that body; eventually succeeded in getting his present place. Address: Calcutta, India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Nizam Sha Shri Kalika Rudra Kalika Surpa Kalika Maha Kalika Deogarh Sujagah

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​Nizam Sha Shri Kalika Rudra Kalika Surpa Kalika Maha Kalika Deogarh Sujagah, Saradar Bahadur, Zemindar of Katru; a.s. of Kesari Sha; b. 1887; educ: Rajkumar College, Raigarh, and at Jagadalpur; succeeded to Estate, 1914; subordinate to the Chief of Basta State; area of the estate, 1,300 miles. Address: Kutru, Basta State, Rajputana, India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Norton, Eardley John

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​Norton, Eardley John, Bar-at-law, Madras and Calcutta; s. of late Mr. John Bruce Norton, Advocate-General, Madras; educ: at Brussels, Esher, Rugby and ​Merton College, Oxford; called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn), 1876; joined the Oxford Circuit, had a brief or two at Assize and Sessions, and was on more than one occasion junior to his father in the Privy Council; landed at Madras, 1879; practiced in the Madras Courts for well nigh 30 years; was Counsel either for prosecution or for defence in very many sensational cases in the Madras Courts as well as in Burma and Hyderabad (Deccan); Coroner of Madras for 7 years from 1880; worked on the popular side in the famous Salem riots of old; was engaged in the equally famous Garstin Dacoity case; in his admirable address to the Jury in this case, Mr. Norton was alleged to have made observations derogatory to Government; he was asked to explain why he should not be proceeded against under the Charter; the case was heard by a Full Bench of the Madras High Court; Mr. Norton defended himself in person and successfully mentioned that the “Privilege of Counsel in England was the measure of Counsel’s Privilege in India”; defended Timol at the Calcutta High Court Sessions, 1906; settled in Calcutta, at the instance, it is said, of a Calcutta Solicitor, who is said to have offered him as many as six briefs as an opening; returned to Madras temporarily to defend Sir George Arbuthnott, 1907; was engaged on behalf of Government in the famous Manicitollah Garden and Harrison Road bomb cases, 1908-03; staunch supporter of the Indian National Congress movement from its start; was Captain of the Volunteer Artillery for 5 years; Member, Madras Municipal Commission for 4 years, representing that body in the Madras Legislative Council; elected a Member of the Supreme Legislative Council, 1S94; resigned this some time after; was a Freemason in Madras and was Junior Warden of the District Grand Lodge of Madras; is the 4th of his name who has taken up the profession of law in India. Recreation: Watching football, and the reading of Law Reports. Address: Calcutta, India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Numberumal Chetty, Tatikonda

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​Numberumal Chetty, Tatikonda, B.A., Rao Sahib (1901), Engineering Contractor and Timber Merchant, Madras; b. 1856; educ: at Madras; B.A., 1879; joined the College of Engineering and completed his course for the B.C.E.; began life as a building contractor and soon acquired a name in the profession; some of the public buildings of Madras, notably the present High Court buildings, were constructed by him. Address: ‘Crynant’, Harrington Road, Madras, W., India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Nunjundayya, H. Y.

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​Nunjundayya, H. Y., M.A., M.L., 1st Councillor, Mysore State; b. 1860; educ: Madras; B.A. 1880; B.L. 1883; M.A. 1885; M.L. 1893; joined British service as Sub Registrar; resigned and joined ​Mysore State service as District Munsiff, 1885; Assistant Commissioner, 1887; sub-Judge, 1891; Under Secretary to Government, 1895; Sub-Divisional Officer, 1896; Deputy Commissioner, 1898; Secretary to Mysore Government (General and Revenue Department), 1902; Judge, Chief Court, Mvsore, 1904; Officiating Chief Judge, 1907; 1st Councillor, Mysore State, 1909. Publication: Artha Sastra, (in Kanarese). Address: Bangalore City, Mysore Province, India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Norton, David

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​Norton, David, C.S.I. (1898), I.C.S. (retired); b. 1851; 4th s. of late William Norton of Hollybank; educ: at Kingstown School, Dublin; m. 1st, Alice Kathleen, d. of late Rev. J. Browne. D.D. 1873; 2nd, Katherine M., d. of late Surgeon Major-General Inkson, 1887; entered I.C.S. 1874; Officiating Magistrate and Collector; Deputy Commissioner, Burma, 1887; President, Rangoon Municipality, 1888; Officiating Financial Commissioner, 1898; Member, Burma Legislative Council, 1900; retired, 1903. Club: East India United Service. Address: Engedi, Eastbourne.
# The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

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Pl. I. To front the Title.
North East view of Selborne from the Short Lythe. Published Nov$^r$. 1. 1788, as the Act directs, by B. White & Son.
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THE
NATURAL HISTORY
AND
ANTIQUITIES
OF
SELBORNE,
IN THE
COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON:
WITH
ENGRAVINGS, and an APPENDIX.
— — — "ego Apis Matinæ "More modoque
"Grata carpentis — — — per laborena "Plurimum," — — — — — Hor.
"Omnia benè describere, quæ in hoc mundo, a Deo facta, aut Naturæ creatæ viribus
"elaborata fuerunt, opus est non unius hominis, nec unius ævi. Hinc Fauna & Flora
Scopoli Ann. Hist. Nat.
L O N D O N:
PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY;
FOR B. WHITE AND SON, AT HORACE'S HEAD, FLEET STREET.
M,DCC,LXXXIX.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
The Author of the following Letters takes the liberty, with all proper deference, of laying before the public his idea of parochial history, which, he thinks, ought to consist of natural productions and occurrences as well as antiquities. He is also of opinion that if stationary men would pay some attention to the districts on which they reside, and would publish their thoughts respecting the objects that surround them, from such materials might be drawn the most complete county-histories, which are still wanting in several parts of this kingdom, and in particular in the county of Southampton.
And here he seizes the first opportunity, though a late one, of returning his most grateful acknowledgments to the reverend the President and the reverend and worthy the Fellows of Magdalen College in the university of Oxford, for their liberal behaviour in permitting their archives to be searched by a member of their own society, so far as the ​Page:White - The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.djvu/14 ​Page:White - The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.djvu/15
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THE
NATURAL HISTORY
OF
SELBORNE.
Τρηχει, αλλ' αγαθη κουροτροφος. ουτι εγωγε Ἡς γαιης δυναμαι γλυκερωτερου αλλο ιδεσθαι. Homeri Odyss.
Tota denique nostra illa aspera, & montuosa, & fidelis, & simplex, & fautrix fuorum regio.
Cicero Orat. pro Cn, Plancio.
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# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 100

The Malediction of the Saint is laid upon the Stones of Usniach.
And with the like intention of building a church, this servant of Christ turned unto a certain very renowned place named Usneach. But two brothers, by name Fiechus and Enda, ruled in those parts; and unto them and unto their offspring the saint prophesied, if they would so permit him, many blessings in this world and in the next; yet not only turned they their ears from his entreaty and from his preaching, but violently expelled him from the place. Then the saint, more grievously taking the hindrance of his purpose than his own expulsion, began to cast on them and on their seed the dart of his malediction. And Secundinus, his disciple, caught the word of his lip, and, ere he could finish, entreated and said unto him: "I beseech thee, my father, that thy malediction be not poured forth on these men, but on the stones of this place!" And the saint was patient, and he was silent, and he assented. Wonderful was the event! From that day forth are these stones found useful unto no building; but if should any one thereunto dispose them, suddenly would the whole work fall down and tumble into pieces. And they admit not the heat of any fire, nor, when plunged into water, do they hiss like other stones; whence it hath become a proverb in that country, when at any time a stone falleth from a building, that it is one of the stones of Usneach. But Enda repented of the injury which he had offered unto the saint, and cast himself at his feet, and besought his pardon, and obtained and deserved it. And he had nine sons, the youngest of whom, named Cormacus, he offered unto Saint Patrick, to be subject to the divine command, together with the ninth part of all his land; and another brother of his, named Leogerus, was converted unto the faith, and gave unto the saint, with his nephew, fifteen villages. And Saint Patrick baptized the boy, and educated and instructed him; and the boy increased in years, in wisdom, and in holiness, and at length, being renowned in virtue and in miracles, rested he in the Lord.
# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 103

The Footprints of Certain Virgins are impressed on a Stone.
And on a certain day the saint veiled and consecrated and espoused unto the heavenly Spouse four virgins standing on one stone. Then did an event marvellous and unwonted appear. Even unto this day are seen impressed on the hard stone the footprints of the virgins which were consecrated unto God, that to all it might be seen how deeply could the prayer or the preaching of the saint penetrate even stony hearts. And hereby may we understand that they who, for the love of Christ, contemn the world, should continue in the hard way, that they might attain Him unto whom they have approved themselves. And the place wherein these virgins were consecrated is called Tedna; and for the servants of the Lord is there builded a church, which at this day pertaineth unto the metropolitan seat of Ardmachia.
# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 106

A Treasure is Twice discovered in the Earth by Swine.
It seemed good unto the saint to build in a certain plain a church, wherein he might gather together unto God the people of his conversion; for the which purpose he entreated from the owner of the inheritance that a place should be prepared, promising unto him the portion of eternal life. But the man, accustomed to the magicians' arts, held as naught that portion so worthy to be desired, requiring rather gold, for the which he cherished an accursed appetite. And the saint replied that at that season gold had he none, for that he had expended all which he had possessed in the building of churches and in relieving the poor. But when he could no otherwise prevail, having first prayed, he went unto a hole in the earth which had been delved up by swine, and therein found he as much gold as he required, and gave it in exchange for the land. And there was another man possessing a neighboring field, the which the saint earnestly entreated might be given unto the said church. Wherefore this man answering as even did the other, again the saint repaired unto the delved hole, and found therein an equal weight of gold, and gave it to the man for the purchase of his field. Thus did the Lord thrice show unto Saint Patrick gold in the earth delved up by swine: once for his own redemption from captivity, twice in this place for the enrichment and endowment of a church. And the latter of the two brothers, Ono by name, was touched in his heart, and not only restored the gold unto the saint, but even gave unto him for the founding and building of a church his own house, his inheritance, and all his substance; and the place is called Alfind, wherein to this day is held the seat of a bishop.
# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 108

The Penitence of Asycus the Bishop.
And over this church Saint Patrick placed one of his disciples named Asycus, who was both in habit and demeanor a monk, the first bishop. And he, at the advice of the saint, instituted therein a college of monks, the which he governed with the privileges of an abbot. But this man, on a certain time, while he ought to have spoken the truth, backsliding with a slippery tongue, uttered forth a falsehood. And immediately he set himself against his own face, and in the bitterness of his sorrow banished he himself, and, flying from human-kind, remained in solitude, and abided he there seven years beheld of none. And his monks sought him long time; and at the end of the seventh year they found him in the depth of a valley, and they strove even by force to bring him thence unto his church, and to compel him as a bridegroom unto the bosom of his spouse. But the bishop in nowise yielded unto them, accounting himself no longer worthy to exercise the priestly office; since from his mouth had issued a purposed falsehood, the which the sacred canons define to be sacrilege in the mouth of a priest. Whereby it is to be considered how deeply should they repent who of their own fault have fallen into the heaviest offences, when this holy man so deeply repented of, and so strictly atoned for, one falsehood alone. Alas! what hearts of clay do they bear unto the resistance of sin, but what hearts of stone unto repentance! For many men, wicked, sinful, abandoned in their lives (the which cannot be observed without grief), take on themselves the cure of souls, and think to wash away the guilt of others with their own denied hands; who, being themselves bound with the chain of mortal sin, desire to loose others' bonds, and thus heap on themselves increased offence. These men, being placed under the spiritual control, can repent of and atone for their own guiltiness, but, when seated in the pastoral chair, bound are they to account for the faith of all those who are entrusted to their charge. Since, then, the words of a priest must be either a truth or a sacrilege, terrible is the judgment on those priests whose tongue is defiled with falsehoods and with perjuries. Thus much let us show, as speaking by digression, how earnestly not only crimes and evil deeds, but even falsehoods, are to be avoided by all Christian men, and especially by the pastors of souls. Now let us return unto the thread of our sacred story. The aforementioned monks, unwilling to separate from Saint Asycus, continued with him even unto the end of his life; and after he was buried, building there a monastery, served they the Lord in holiness and in truth.
# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 107

Saint Patrick prophesieth of the two Brothers.
But what the saint at the revelation of the Spirit foretold of the two brothers should not be passed over in silence. For to the elder, who had preferred Mammon and gold before his prayers, he predicted that he and his seed should in a little time lose the possession of their inheritance; and to the younger, for the devotion of his soul toward him, predicted he many good things—that he should in that land be the coadjutor of kings, and that of his race the holiest priests of the Lord should be born. And none of those things which the saint foretold in anywise failed in the event.
# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 109

The Tempest of the Sea is Composed.
While on a certain time Saint Patrick was preaching unto the heathens, for the sake of instructing and baptizing them, he made in that place a long stay. But his disciple Benignus was grieved thereat; and the saint declared that he would not depart until his disciples and pupils should arrive from foreign regions. And one day he beheld the sky to grow dark, and the ocean to be perturbed and shaken with a strong wind. Then the saint, covering his face for very sorrow, showed unto his attendants his sons which were born unto him in Christ laboring under grievous peril; and he was sorely afflicted for them, and feared he chiefly for his young pupil, the son of Erchus; but when every one said that the vessel could not endure so violent a storm, forthwith the saint betook himself unto prayer. And after a short space, even in the hearing of them all, he bade the winds and the waves, in the name of his God, to rest from their wrath. O wonderful event! and worthy of admiration. Forthwith the wind surceased, the ocean became silent, the tempest is appeased, and a great calm is made. And on that day the aforementioned brothers happily landed, and told unto all around what they had suffered from the elements which were turned unto their destruction, but afterward composed by the powerful prayers of the saint.
# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 104

The Earth is raised in the midst of the Stream.
And Saint Patrick, for the sake of passing thereover, came unto a very great river named Synnia, between Midia and Connactia, which was impassable of all, save only by vessels. And he long time sought a vessel, but found it not. Then prayed he unto the Lord, who erewhile had made a way through the sea and a path through the deep waters, and immediately the earth at the divine bidding was raised in the middle of the stream, and to the saint and his company it afforded a free passage. And when they had reached the bank, his charioteer dropped dead; and on that spot was a church builded, which to the church of Ardmachia now of right belongeth.
# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 105

Of the Altar and the Four Chalices discovered under the Earth.
In that place where the prayers of Saint Patrick had dispersed the darkness which had been raised by the magicians, a church was builded, wherein he promoted one of his disciples, named Ailvius, unto the priesthood, that he there might minister. And he complained unto the saint that the matters needful for his ministry were wanting unto him. Then the saint, instructed of heaven, showed him under ground an altar of wonderful workmanship, having at its four corners four chalices of glass, and enjoined him to dig them forth carefully, lest perchance they should be broken; and the priest did accordingly, and found all things as the saint had foretold. But by whom this altar was made, or with the chalices there deposited, to me is yet unknown. Some, however, think that they were placed there by Palladius or his associates, being placed there after his departure.
# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 101

Of the Woman in Travail, and of her Offspring.
A certain prince, named Brendanus, who was then lately baptized, earnestly besought the saint that he would bless a certain pregnant woman; for he believed that his blessing would much avail unto her and her offspring. And the saint, assenting to his petition, raised his hand; but suddenly, before he had given the word of blessing or had made the sign of the cross, he drew it back. For, at the revelation of the Spirit, he knew that her child was conceived of Coirbre, of whom he had prophesied that not one of his succession should remain. But why the saint thus did the prince marvelled, and unto him the man of God delayed not to declare the mystery nor the cause thereof. Then did he the more earnestly entreat the saint that at least he would in some other manner vouchsafe to bless the woman and her offspring. And Patrick, raising his right hand, blessed her, and said: "The infant which thou bearest in thy womb shall not reign, for the word that in the name of the Lord I have spoken on Coirbre and on his seed shall stand fixed; yet shall he be one of the chiefs of the land, and very needful shall he be unto the king and unto the kingdom." And what the saint foretold without doubt happened.