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t 8 7 ] ABDUL LATIF. Nawab Abdul Latifwaa born ill March, 1828. He received bis early education at the Calcutta Madrasah, where ha gained a Government scholarship for proficiency in English and in oriental subjects. He became a teacher in 1846 and was appointed a Deputy Magistrate in 1849, He, in due course, rose to tbe first grade ef Deputy Magistrates and on many occasions officiated as a Presidency Magistrate. He came of a very respectable family which had long been settled -in Faridpore in Bengal. His father, a leading pleader in the Sudder Dewany Adalat in Calcutta, was very much respected for hia attainments as a Persian scholar. Nawab Abdul Latif was remarkable for his tact and judgment He did much service to the cause of his county as a member of the Bengal Legislative Council for several years. He waa a Justice of the Peace, a member of the Board of Examiners and a fellow of the Calcutta University. In 1867 he was rewarded by the Government with a gold medal and a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica with an autograph inscription of the Viceroy — "in recognition of his services in promoting native education, specially the education of those, who like himself, belong to the Mahomedan religion." In 1862, he was nominated by the Government to be a member of the Commission to enquire into the state of the Calcutta and the Hooghly Madrasas. He also acted as a Municipal Commissioner for Calcutta and the suburbs. He was also a member of the Board of Management of the Alipore Reformatory and of the District Education Committee, 24 I'ergannas, II** founded the Mahomedan Literary and Scientific Society and acted as its Secretary since 1863. As a member of the Philosophical Committee of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, and as a Member and Trustee of the Indian Ansociatiou for the cultivation of science, and of the District Charitable Society, he did substantial work. He became a CI.K. on 1st January, 1883. a Nawab in May, 1880, and a Nawab Bahadur on the occasion of Her Majesty's Jubilee in 1887.