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Atul Chandra Chatterjee
Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee (Bengali: অতুল চন্দ্র চ্যাটার্জী; 24 November 1874 – 8 September 1955) was an Indian diplomat and government official who served as the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1925 to 1931 and was member of the governing body of the League of Nations Assembly in 1925 and 1946. He is known for proposing the India House in London in 1925, which was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and completed in 1930. Early life and education He was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to Hem Chandra Chatterjee and Nistarini Devi. Chatterjee was educated at Presidency College in Kolkata and then at King's College at Cambridge University, where he graduated in 1896 with an honours degree. In 1896, he stood for the Indian Civil Service examinations, passing first. Career From 1897 to 1906, Chatterjee served as an ICS official in the United Provinces, eventually rising to the office of District collector, after which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atul Chandra Chaterjee
Atul may refer to: People *Atul Agnihotri (born 1970), Indian actor *Atul Bakshi (born 1956), Indian glass artist *Atul Bhatkhalkar (born 1965), Indian politician *Atul Butte, American biotechnology entrepreneur *Atul Dodiya (born 1959), Indian artist *Atul Gawande (born 1965), American surgeon *Atul Kale (born 1970), Indian actor and singer *Atul Kapoor (born 1966), Indian actor * Atul Kasbekar (born 1965), Indian photographer *Atul Khatri (born 1968), Indian comedian *Atul Kochhar (born 1969), Indian chef *Atul Kulkarni (born 1965), Indian actor *Atul Kumar (chemist), Indian chemist *Atul Kumar (ophthalmologist), Indian ophthalmologist *Atul Parchure (born 1966), Indian actor *Atul Punj (born 1957), Indian businessman *Atul Rai (born 1982), Indian politician *Atul Prasad Sen (1871–1934), Indian writer and musician *Atul Sharma (born 1961), Indian musician Other uses *Atul, Gujarat, a village in India * Atul (company), a chemical conglomerate in India *Atul Auto Atul Auto L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Naval Conference 1930
The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Empire of Japan, Japan, French Third Republic, France, Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Italy, and the United States that was signed on 22 April 1930. Seeking to address issues not covered in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, which had created tonnage limits for each nation's Surface combatant, surface warships, the new agreement regulated submarine warfare, further controlled cruisers and destroyers, and limited naval shipbuilding. Ratifications were exchanged in London on 27 October 1930, and the treaty went into effect on the same day, but it was largely ineffective. The treaty was registered in ''Treaty series#League of Nations, League of Nations Treaty Series'' on 6 February 1931. Conference The signing of the treaty remains inextricably intertwined with the ongoing negotiations, which began before the official start of the London N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knights Commander Of The Order Of The Star Of India
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Greek ''hippeis'' and '' hoplite'' (ἱππεῖς) and Roman '' eques'' and '' centurion'' of classical antiquity. In the Early Middle Ages in Europe, knighthood was conferred upon mounted warriors. During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior. Often, a knight was a vassal who served as an elite fighter or a bodyguard for a lord, with payment in the form of land holdings. The lords trusted the knights, who were skilled in battle on horseback. Knighthood in the Middle Ages was closely linked with horsemanship (and especially the joust) from its origins in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knights Grand Commander Of The Order Of The Indian Empire
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Greek ''hippeis'' and ''hoplite'' (ἱππεῖς) and Roman '' eques'' and ''centurion'' of classical antiquity. In the Early Middle Ages in Europe, knighthood was conferred upon mounted warriors. During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior. Often, a knight was a vassal who served as an elite fighter or a bodyguard for a lord, with payment in the form of land holdings. The lords trusted the knights, who were skilled in battle on horseback. Knighthood in the Middle Ages was closely linked with horsemanship (and especially the joust) from its origins in the 12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Civil Service (British India) Officers
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 300 million people in the Presidencies and provinces of British India and were ultimately responsible for overseeing all government activity in the 250 districts that comprised British India. They were appointed under Section XXXII(32) of the Government of India Act 1858, enacted by the British Parliament. The ICS was headed by the Secretary of State for India, a member of the British cabinet. At first almost all the top thousand members of the ICS, known as "Civilians", were British, and had been educated in the best British schools.Surjit Mansingh, ''The A to Z of India'' (2010), pp 288–90 At the time of the creation of India and Pakistan in 1947, the outgoing Government of India's ICS was divided between India and Pakistan. Although these are now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhupendra Nath Mitra
Sir Bhupendra Nath Mitra (Bengali: ভূপেন্দ্র নাথ মিত্র) (October 1875 – 25 February 1937) was an Indian government official and diplomat who served as the third Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1936. Early life Mitra was born in Bengal to Ashutosh Mitra and his wife. He received his early education at the Metropolitan Institution and the Hare School. Taking an MA from Presidency College, then under the University of Calcutta, in 1895, he entered government service the following year. He married and had a son and two daughters. Career In 1910, Mitra was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, in the Finance Department. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in the 1913 King's Birthday Honours, and was promoted to acting Deputy Secretary in the Finance Department in 1915. In the same year, he was appointed Controller of War Accounts. He was appointed an Officer of the Orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of High Commissioners Of India To The United Kingdom
The High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom is the head of the High Commission of India to the United Kingdom. The High Commission is located at India House in London. History In 1919, a committee chaired by the Marquess of Crewe determined there existed the need to separate the agency work of the India Office from its other political and administrative roles, and recommended the transfer of all such work to "a High Commissioner for India or some similar Indian Governmental Representative in London." It was also felt popular opinion in India would view this as a step towards full Dominion status for India. The Government of India Act that same year upheld the recommendations of the committee, making provision for "the appointment of a High Commissioner by His Majesty by Order in Council, which might delegate to the official any of the contractual powers of the Secretary of State or Indiain Council, and prescribe the conditions under which he should act on behalf of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Portrait Gallery (London)
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it opened in 1856. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery (London), National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Collection The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. The collection includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harrison Moreland
William Harrison Moreland (13 July 1868 – 28 September 1938) was a British civil servant who served in the Indian Civil Service and wrote several books on the economic history of India based on Mughal, Dutch, and Portuguese sources. Moreland was born in Belfast, Ireland, son of William Harrison of Glen House, Crawfordsburn. He studied at Clifton College, Somerset (1881-1886) and joined the Indian Civil Services spending probation studying at Trinity College, Cambridge and receiving an LL.B. in 1889 after which he went to India. He served as assistant commissioner (1894), joint magistrate (1897), magistrate and collector (1899) and became Director of Land Records and Agriculture in the United Provinces in 1899. He simplified the system of land revenue. He retired in 1914 due to loss of hearing but worked as an advisor in Central India for two years. Returning to England, he began to study the economic history of India. He published several books including: * '' The Agricultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burn (Indologist)
Sir Richard Burn (1 February 1871 – 26 July 1947) was an English civil servant in British India, historian of India and numismatist."BURN, Sir Richard", in ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014. He was the editor of Volume IV of ''The Cambridge History of India'' and contributed four chapters to Volume VI of that work on the Indian political situation after 1900. Early life Burn was born in Liverpool, educated at the Liverpool Institute, then at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. Career in India Burn entered the Indian Civil Service in 1891.Hayavadana Rao, C. (Ed.) (1915''The Indian biographical dictionary 1915''.Madras: Pillar & Co., pp. 72–73. At Wikisource. He became Under-Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces in 1897, Superintendent of the Census 1900, and of the '' Imperial Gazetteer'' in 1902, and editor in 1905. He was Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.121 billion (including colleges) , budget = £2.308 billion (excluding colleges) , chancellor = The Lord Sainsbury of Turville , vice_chancellor = Anthony Freeling , students = 24,450 (2020) , undergrad = 12,850 (2020) , postgrad = 11,600 (2020) , city = Cambridge , country = England , campus_type = , sporting_affiliations = The Sporting Blue , colours = Cambridge Blue , website = , logo = University of Cambridge logo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Broughton
Gladys Mary Chatterjee, Lady Chatterjee OBE (née Broughton; 30 October 1883 – 7 May 1969) was a British teacher, schools inspector, and barrister, and the wife of Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee. Life She was born in 1883. Her parents were Emily Angelina (born Filose) and Captain William Barnard Broughton. Her maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Filose, had designed Jai Vilas Mahal (known as the ''Gwalior palace''). Her father died while she was a child and her mother remarried Lt Colonel Ernest Frederick Cambier. She went to Bedford High School and she attended University College London where she enjoyed several scholarships as she gained a degree in philosophy. She gained a qualification to teach at Bedford College, London, but went to work at the Board of Trade as an investigator in 1912. In 1913 she went to India to work as an inspector of schools and returned during the war in 1916 to become a welfare officer in the Ministry of Munitions. For this work she earned one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
