INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
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Director of Botanical Survey of Western India, and Director of Agriculture, Bombay; Fellow of the Bombay University; retired, 1893: Sub-Director of the Imperial Institute. Publications: Manual of Heat, Manual of Geology, Flora of Bombay Presidency; Address: Potswood House, New Gardens.
Coomaraswami, Dr. Ananda K., D.Sc. (Lond), F.I.S., F.G.S., M.R.A.S., Ceylon; s. of late Sir Muttu Coomaraswami, of Ceylon; b. 1877; Educ: Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, Gloucester, and University College, London; Director of Mineralogical Survey of Ceylon, 1903-06; initiated a movement for National Education, teaching of vernaculars in all schools, and revival of Indian culture; Member of the Ceylon University Association; undertook a lecturing tour in India; one of the founders of the India Society; was in charge of the Arts section at the United Provinces Exhibition of 1910-11; Member of the Council of the India Society and Viking Society; Fellow of the University College, London. Publications: Reports of the Geology of Ceylon, 1903-06; Mediaeval Sinhalese Art; The Indian Craftsman; Essays in National Idealism; Art and Swadeshi; Selected Examples of Indian Art; Indian Drawings, 2 Vols; Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists; Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon; etc, etc. Recreation: Collecting Indian works of art. Address: No. 39, Brookfield, West Hill, Highgate, N.
oomes, William Heron; F.R.G.S. F.R.A.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E.; Protector of Immigrants, Trinidad and Tobago, since 1896; b. 1851; m. 1875; Marion, d. of W. Letheby Inch, Paymaster-in-Chief, R.N.; Educ.: Christ College, Finchley; entered R.N. 1866; Assist. Supt. Marine Surveys; Government, of India, being employed principally on harbours, Madras, Colombo, Goa, etc.; 1876-84, Interpreter in Hindi, Urdu, and Persian; retired as Commander, 1894; member of Legislative Council and J.P. for the colony of Trinidad and Tobago. Recreations: shooting, fishing, whist, bridge, photography. Address: Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies.
Cooper, Francis Alfred C.M.G., Director of Public Works, Ceylon, 1912. Address: Colombo, Ceylon.
Cooper, Lt.-Col. Sir William Earnshaw, Kt., (1903); C.I.E., (1897); Hon. Col. Cawnpore Volunteer Rifle Corps; managing partner. Cooper, Allen and Co., Cawnpore, India; b. 1843; Commanded 5th Administrative Batt. N.W.P. Volunteers for several years; President Upper India Chamber of Commerce, 1889-99: Member, Legislative Council, 1893-1900. Publications: The Murder of Agriculture; Socialism and its Perils, 1908; Britain for the Briton, 1909; England’s Need, 1910 etc. Address: Cawnpore, U.P., India; Hume Towers, Bournemouth.
Copleston, Right Rev. Reginald Stephen; Bishop of Calcutta and Metropotiton of India (Retd.); b. 1845; s. of Rev. R. E. Copleston; educ. at Merchant Taylors; and Merton College, Oxford; m. Edith, d. of late Archbishop Trench; Fellow and Tutor, St. John’s College, Oxford; appointed Bishop of Colombo, 1875; translated to Calcutta and became Metropolitan of India, 1902; retired,
