Board with a donation of Rs.20,000 for the management and up-keep of the institution. It was opened on the 3rd November, 1896, by Mr. Home, the Collector and Agent.
He contributed Rs.6,000 to the much needed choultry built in Mr. Turner's name at Vizagapatam, and attended, and took a prominent part at, the Turner's Memorial Meeting and the Opening Ceremony of the choultry which was performed by Mr. Home, the Collector of the District, in the year 1898.
1895.
In the New-Year's Day Honours Gazette, Her Majesty the Queen-Empress was graciously pleased to confer on the Rajah the Knighthood of the Indian Empire. On the 30th May the Rajah was invested, at Ootacamund, with the Insignia of the Most Exalted Order of the Indian Empire, by His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Lord Wenlock, Governor of Madras
